Analysis of Forgotten Shores



A mortal fear of dying
Haunt many, so they say
But do we really know what comes
when souls must break away?

Our souls were there before the birth
of one so human form
And newborn life shows not a trace
of any graven storm

The warm, inviting, brightness seen
From those, near death, were there
Share not a single tale of vivid grief
Or bleak despair.

I do believe the soul returns
to where love bred before
No fear should have a living thing
of mere forgotten shores.


Scheme ABXB XCXC XDXD XXAX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 0101110 110111 11110111 111101 101010101 111101 01011101 110101 01010101 111101 1101011101 1101 11010101 111101 11110101 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 451
Words 89
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on January 27, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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