Analysis of Chalky Dover
Just like a billboard
At sea…white chalk
And much loved.
Vera Lynn’s Song.
Site of Elizabeth’s charge
To steaming horses
And men
Awaiting the Spaniards.
Awaiting loss of their Island
Or not.
Fade to WW2…
Nightly those bombers
Of Huns pass over.
Dropping payloads
On the City of
Refined Hearts.
Subway tube asylum
With bombs, sirens and
Fires above.
My Dad almost perished there.
But no
He stood outside
Buckingham
As Winston announced Peace
In Europe.
Peace, now felt
Around Dover.
Smugglers of Rye
Faint memories for tourists.
Peace, in a culture
A language
A people
Prevailing.
On their pint-size
Chunk of Rock
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQIORSTUVWXMYZM1 2 3 4 B |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
Metre | 1101 1111 011 1011 1111 11010 01 010010 01011110 11 111 10110 11110 101 10101 011 11010 11100 1001 111101 11 1111 10 110011 010 111 0110 1011 1100110 10010 010 010 010 1111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
About this poem
Point of protecting the Great Isle time and again.
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Written on December 23, 2022
Submitted by dougb.72572 on December 23, 2022
Modified on March 20, 2023
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