Analysis of The Doctors Day at the Beach
The fog was blowing in from the sea
it came in lazy rolling masses,
like a giant paramecium
languidly cart wheeling over the sand.
The sun lay for a moment-
a luminescent button
in the belly of the fog.
Then it was gone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100101 110101010 10100100 11101001 0111010 001010 0010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 213 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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