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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Submitted by donka_k on April 17, 2018

Modified on April 27, 2023

24 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXAAXBB XBXBXBCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 499
Words 82
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 8

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