Analysis of Froth Boats
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
The froth boats echoed on the tide
Sailing across the beach foam
And hitting the final peer.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 01110101 1001011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 92 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Written on June 16, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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