Analysis of Waves
Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)
Days rolled by in waves
Crashing gently to the shore
Eating away the weeks
Weeks and months
Months and more
Slowly taking from me
Another year another life
Struggling to remain free
From this world so filled with strife
I find myself now drowning
I find myself now free
I find calm and peace at last
As the last wave washes over me
| Scheme | XAXXA BCBC XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1010101 100101 101 101 101011 01010101 1001011 1111111 111110 11111 1110111 101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 333 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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