Analysis of Fire Island



Walking the dunes,
Picking up stones,
Seashells are not my forte’.

Those I see are pretty, but, common
Dear Lessie reminds me.
She sees shells I don’t.
The artist’s eye.
I hie a blind eye.

Stones, iridescent white,
Pink marbled, wet
Revealing marbling hidden by God
As a prize to be revealed
To those given to see with His eyes.

Waves crash to shore on this wintry clear day.
Row upon row thundering into each other,
White caps as fingers reaching to man and screaming,
“Save Me! Save Me! Preserve the Beach! I’m tolling away in the pollution of man.”


Scheme XXA XXABB XXXXX AXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 1011 111110 111110110 11011 11111 0101 11011 10101 1101 01011011 1011101 111011111 1111111011 101110001110 111101011010 11110101110010001011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 587
Words 105
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 5, 5, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by dougnoel on July 27, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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