Analysis of Rushing tides
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
How your strength encourages me into your tender charms
Hold me through the darkness, lead us away from harm
Tides cannot compare to the rush into your arms.
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Terza rima Tercet |
| Metre | 11101001011101 111010110111 110011010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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