Analysis of Bottle in the Sand
I put my heart into a bottle,
And watched it float away.
Not knowing whether currents,
Would find you one sweet day.
My love has crossed an endless sea,
Aching for its return to me.
And now I watch as waves hit land,
For my bottle in the sand.
| Scheme | ABCBDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101010 011101 1101010 111111 11111101 10110111 01111111 1110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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