Analysis of The Highest Summit
Sara Tolliday 1986 (Melrose, MA)
You said the view is breathtaking
At the top of the highest summit
You said it’s where hope lives and where dreams are scripted
That the air is pure and the water clear
That I can build a home there
Your words are slippery and steep, but I climb them anyway
The wind is cold and numbs my throat as I breathe in
I’m mute and frozen
You didn’t say I might fall
And that the ground below is unkind
I’d fall to my death a million more times and still forget where I lost grip
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 101101010 111111011110 1011100101 1111011 11110001111110 011101111110 11010 111111 010101101 111110101101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 371 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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