Analysis of The Storm
A frightening tempest approached
Like a tempered beast
We floated
Into the jaws of the monster
As if it were starved
We drifted
Through the darkness of its belly
As if it was satisfied
We continued
Out of the great swine
As the fear vanished
We sailed
The terrifying creature fades away
Like it was never there
We watched
At last the sun emerges
Like it has before
We observed
A fuming tempest has past
As this story
We told
| Scheme | ABCDECFGHIJKLMNOPQRFS |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001001 10101 110 01011010 11101 110 10101110 111110 1010 11011 10110 11 010010101 111101 11 1101010 11101 101 0101011 1110 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 404 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 21 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on February 11, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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