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 |
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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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