Analysis of The Ocean of Life (Excerpt)
To my starboard side are the volcanoes
of calamitous temptations, submerged,
ever ready to hurl at me with force
a shell from the molten core of the world.
I can see no sign of land to my port,
where I can dock myself and contemplate,
why the ocean of life has been growing,
more and more violent and savage of late.....
Reda the complee poem @ http://amitpoetry.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/the-ocean-of-life/
| Scheme | XXXXXAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110010 1010001001 1010111111 0110101101 1111111111 11111010 1010111110 10110001011 1001101101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 404 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on August 22, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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