Analysis of Hiding A Nightmare
The Mountains are never as grave as the Sea,
their great heights with all dangers exposed
But those depths that lay sullen, undiscovered and dark,
—hide a nightmare to sailors like me
(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)
Scheme | AX XA A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011011101 111111001 111111001001 10111011 111010100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 233 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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