Analysis of Sail Away III
Sailing away on the open sea,
leaving the one she loves behind,
she knows not what she will find.
Looking back upon the shore,
she hopes that he will understand
knowing that in her heart, he will
find it difficult to comprehend.
Leaving the past behind,
she leaves him a yellow rose
adrift out on the open sea
to ease his troubled mind.
Cast upon a sea of pain,
she knows that things
will never be the same.
So she sails away, hoping one day
thst she could forget his name.
Sail your ship across the water,
spread your sails across the sky,
take the time to look behind and see...
so sailing ships wont pass you by!
| Scheme | ABBXXXX BXABXXCXC XDAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110101 10011101 1111111 1010101 1111101 10100111 11100101 100101 1110101 01110101 111101 1010111 1111 110101 111011011 1110111 11101010 1110101 101110101 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 596 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 9, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 24, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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