Analysis of Ocean View
I looked from the cliff,
down the foaming waves,
the ominous clouds--
in slow and threatening pace.
The beach-- abandoned, wet, dreary,
no seagulls in sight, nor sandpipers busy,
just winds, unleashed
and fiercely moaning,
as if nature was angry and foreboding.
Then, suddenly, wings--
wide and circling--
they moved lower
where the waters were crushing.
A hawk, alone, bold and majestic
was making his rounds-- slowly descending--
he was flying above the mighty ocean,
mightier still, in his freedom and motion.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 10101 01001 0101001 01010110 11011110 1101 01010 11101100010 11001 10100 1110 1010010 010110010 1101110010 11100101010 10010110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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