Analysis of A sailors storm

Anya Maunder

Free verse
Courage is an old cloud,
Why do the sailors endure?
Desolation, Death, Faith,
All seas love storms.

Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 1101001 01011 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 99
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Written on February 25, 2023

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