Analysis of Blue
This vast seascape with its muttering tide,
Boulders and shoreline's arcing curve
Are drenched in all eternity, haunted and tied
To glacial memory. It's more than I deserve
To watch the orange light descend at gilded dusk.
The ornamented velvet, spangled, cobalt in the cove
Embraces spinning earth in lust.
It's plain why sailors rove
To seek the joys that Spartans knew
(Like dragons deftly slain).
Under solar spotlight ancient mariners too
Plowed roiling seas with youthful hearts aflame.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DXDX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111111001 100111 110101001001 110100111101 110101011101 010010101001 01010101 111101 1101111 110101 10101101001 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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