Analysis of Rip Tide
I hitchhiked up to Limbo
to await that final toll
But lost my way when Siren’s called
which led me to the shoals
My thumb went back inside my palm,
their voices soft and low
No closer to those pearly gates
—this darkened undertow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 1011101 11111101 111101 11110111 110101 11011101 11010 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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