Analysis of An Ocean of Tears
An ocean of tears
In the aftermath of yet
Another school shooting,
Waves of grief and pain
Wash over us.
A tidal wave of sorrow
Engulfs everything in its path.
We are lost in a sea of despair,
Searching for a life raft
To keep us from drowning
In an ocean of tears.
John Kassel
2023
| Scheme | A XBXXXXXXBA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 001011 010110 11101 1101 0101110 110011 111001101 101011 111110 011011 110 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 302 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
May feelings after another mass shooting in America.
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