Analysis of The Costa Sun (2016)



from the hills of the Magreb
to the deserts of mean Yanbu
we never dreaded the heat
nor troubled with the meat.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Tanaga 
Metre 101101 10101110 1101001 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 108
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on April 21, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Doug Hall

Even though I was given a Brit Milah (Jewish circumcision) 8 days after I was born in the USA I have never known my Hebrew name. I have created various ones including Ephraim ben Uri and Achael ben Uriel. If anyone knows my Hebrew name from August 1968 in Massachusetts please let me know... more…

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