Analysis of Passion
My passion rages like the sea
Juxtaposed in fear and love for thee
My battered sands sustain no light
But empty echoes that fill the night
Turmoil! Strife!
Your tides cut deep, the sharpest knife
Release me from this agony
That I may once again be free
To see the world as I once did
With waters blue, and not of red
But alas, can this come to pass?
Can I be?
Bereft of the void thou fillest in me?
Unshackled from this mortal coil
The heart and spirit cannot spoil
Nor body break under its weight
If stormy gales and gusts abate
Echidna vanquished in retreat
Her briny beasts laid at your feet
So pierced by glints and glows and rays
Slain by the sun of halcyon days
A bold course charted, my soul to see
Clouds justly parted, I need not flee
Bathed in beauty and your being
Cleansed by peace of your decreeing
Within the wake, the tempests mourn
Baptized in tears, I am reborn
Enlightened hence, a pact I make
'Tis one I ne'er will forsake
Should roguish waves entice my sea
E’er true to thee, ere me
Scheme | AABB CC AAXX XAA DDEE FFGG AAHH II JJAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 01010111 11010111 110101101 11 11110101 01111100 11110111 11011111 11010111 10111111 111 011011101 01011101 01010101 11011011 11010101 01010001 0111111 11110101 110111001 011101111 110101111 10100110 111111 0101011 01011111 01010111 1111101 1110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,041 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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