Analysis of As I sat there . . .
As I sat there and felt my fingertips slowly ,
slide against the sand and the wind rush,
rapidly through my hair, watching as the warm summer
listening to the ocean water which seemed to be
as the wind glided along it.
As the crickets sang their summer night song,
I looked up to see the clouds slowly fade,
seeing how calm and beautiful it was,
I realized I wouldn't rather be anywhere else but
where I was then,
as I sat there and opened my eyes I looked around
finding myself surrounded by the same four walls...
Scheme | A X X A X X X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111010 101010011 1001111010110 1001010101111 10110011 1010111011 1111101101 1011010011 1101101011011 1111 1111010111101 10101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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