Analysis of Like a Wave I Crash into the Rock
I crash into the granite sadness
it doesn't let go of me
as if squeezed by the clutches of time
I try to break free
from its iron embrace
but it's stronger
than me.
| Scheme | ABCBDEB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101010 1101111 111101011 11111 111001 1110 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 164 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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This poem is about spiritual pain.
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