Analysis of Live Upon the Sand

Calvin Chrisie Joer

I met a man upon the sand and this is what he said:
How can I strive to stay alive when I myself am dead?
So when life and pain are one and same,
Mark me down as gone and slain.

Scheme AABC
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101011111 1111110111111 111011101 1111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 177
Words 44
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Written on May 09, 2024

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