Analysis of Tides



This place feels so cold,
It’s a place I used to call home,
Where I used to fly
And dance all daylong.

This place slowly took my soul,
With every dance,
It broke my bones.
And every smile of joy,
was just an act of coy.

Here I was taught to love the flow,
Immerse with waves,
And crush onto the seawall.

But one day the flow
Took me to the shore.
The shore that felt so warm,
And more like Home.
That's when the tides came
And pulled me back
To the same place that felt so cold.


Scheme ABCX XXXDD EXC EXXBXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 10111111 11111 0111 1110111 11001 1111 0100111 111111 11111101 0111 011001 11101 11101 011111 0111 11011 0111 10111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 489
Words 119
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 3, 7
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Written on January 27, 2023

Submitted by aprilkay on January 26, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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