Analysis of Barrier Island
What weighs down this sandy wisp
between a bay and ocean
is not a causeway, not the press
of footed towers, nor the tread
of bare and browning bathers
on its narrow, wet, khaki-colored beaches --
It is the weight of air, cloudless, clear
but heavy air, blue in the depths,
that arches overhead;
and it is the sizzle of minor surf
along the island's edges,
dampening sand, to stick upon the sea
like a licked stamp upon a letter.
The men, roads, and condos all may seem
to wrest control from nature and its weather;
but, we, who've spent some years here,
know better.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHDIFJKLKMK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 0101010 1101101 11010101 1101010 11101101010 110111101 11011001 110101 0110101101 0101010 1001110101 101101010 011010111 11011100110 1101111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 438 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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