Analysis of Too Much Peace
The black waters stay still.
Life drained away.
Nothing can survive here.
Oil killed the day.
The sea has died.
Too much peace in the waters of the gulf.
Too much peace for me.
| Scheme | ABCBDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011011 1101 101011 1101 0111 1110010101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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