Analysis of Beneath The Sea
He sees her standing on the shore
Waiting impatiently for so long
Her heart is breaking like the dawn
She'll wait 'til Kingdom Come
Pleading with God to bring him home
He's sad that her vigil will be in vain
For he's still somewhere far away
Her expression can't hide her torment
And he sees that she's been crying
He wishes none of this were true
For soon he'll be in his eternal home
A place he wished he would never be
Lost and wandering all alone
Somewhere deep, beneath the sea
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 100100111 01110101 111101 10111111 1110101101 1111101 00101101 01111110 11011101 1111010101 011111101 10100101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 484 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
About this poem
It reminds me of a time when I was in Viet Nam when and I, along with several members of my squad were waiting outside of a field hospital to hear about a seriously wounded radio operator who was a member our unit. It seems like it took a year for a doctor to come out and tell us something. Sadly, he was killed. Not knowing anything and waiting still affects me today. You don't know if you should walk around, sit down, stare at something or cry because, in your heart you fear the worst. more »
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