Analysis of Morning at the Bay



The water's surface is glassy smooth
At night the breaker got pretty soothe
The waves washed up pieces of log
The sun is not shrouded by coastal fog
Dense kelp covers the moraine's caves
Lurking beneath the rolling waves
A magical yet largely hidden world
With its bouncing sea otters up curled
Dominated by massive spires of kelp
Endangered I feel unable to help
This forest so unique, so rich, so bright
Pierced by shimmering shards of light
Will soon disappear from this planet
Its holdfasts anchored on granite
If we don't care!


Scheme AABCDDEEFFGGHHI
Poetic Form
Metre 010101101 110101101 01111011 0111101101 1110011 10010101 0100110101 111011011 100110111 0101101011 1101011111 11100111 11011110 1110110 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 518
Words 93
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 434
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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