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
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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