Analysis of The Calm Before The Storm
I set sail on a bright sunny Day.
No, swells or clouds in my way.
Just me and the sea,
together in harmony.
My sails are up, the wind at my back.
My course is charted and I’m on track.
Predicting smooth sailing and calm seas.
But the sea is as unpredictable as he can be.
The waves start to roll
and the tide starts to turn.
Then my sails are set on fire
the boat starts to burn.
No life line, no help, no safety to be found.
I'm screaming "Mayday" but I don’t hear a sound.
My S.O.S has fallen on deaf ears.
I feel like I've been in this storm for years.
I can’t reach my life boat, with out feeling
another blow.
This is not how this voyage,
was supposed to go.
The mighty ocean attacks with all his might.
I can not stand, I can not fight.
He roars and thrashes, and everything thing around me crashes.
He keeps me down with wave after wave.
I think I've found my bottomless grave.
I beg and plead for his waves to stop.
But all I can hear is pop, pop, pop.
The pop of the wood, my boat is
falling apart.
My voyage was doomed from the very start.
I should have seen the skies and charted the stars.
I could have avoided all the scars.
The sea and his anger,
the sea and his wrath.
I chatred directly in to his path.
All his anger and all the Rage.
Keeps my heart in a cage.
The tide has turned
the storm has passed.
My torment has stopped at last.
The sails are gone, my boat is broken.
Barely alive the silence has spoken.
The sun is out, the waves are small.
The pain from the sea is all I can recall.
Now the ocean is nice and his
waves are calm.
But another storm is brewing And will be here before long.
I've battend down my hatches.
My boat has some stractches I’ve survived the first swell. I can handle another aswell. My body beaten and bruised. I look to Jesus for He is my refuge.
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Metre | 111101101 1111011 11001 0100100 111101111 111100111 010110011 1011101001111 01111 001111 11111110 01111 11111110111 11010111101 11110111 1111101111 1111111110 0101 1111110 10111 01010011111 11111111 11010010101110 111111101 111111001 110111111 111111111 01101111 1001 1101110101 11110101001 111010101 010110 01011 110100111 11100101 111001 0111 0111 111111 011111110 1001010110 01110111 0110111111 10101101 111 101011100111011 111110 1111110101111100101110100111110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,826 |
Words | 411 |
Sentences | 46 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 49 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,364 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 363 |
About this poem
I have written this for those who experience domestic abuse.
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Written on February 17, 2023
Submitted by 16ariana.sanchez on February 17, 2023
Modified by 16ariana.sanchez on June 01, 2023
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