Analysis of Patience
The sea was a still as a teardrop from God.
Gifted at night in a dream.
A women sat by it on a grain of sand. Blown there on a rain drop on the air that had melted under the sun.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 0110110111 1011001 0101111011111101110111101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 14 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Written on June 30, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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