Analysis of Sandcastle Kind of Love



Everywhere I look,
I see a beach with our names on it.

With waves so inviting,
I almost want to go under,
And never resurface.

And the sand that was once warm,
is now cold between my toes,
the love that used to exist here so bittersweet,
I could mourn us forever.

I see the sunsets that we used to talk about,
fading in the distance,
reminding me it’s time to let go.

I know what I have to do,
but maybe I’m just not ready for the sun to set
on the love I loved most in the world.

Maybe I’m not ready to let the waves
carry away what’s left of us,
and settle at the bottom of the ocean.

I want us to have a sandcastle kind of love,
not the kind that sinks to the ocean floor,
never to be seen again.


Scheme XX XAB XXXA XXX XXX XBX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 1101110111 111010 1111110 010010 0011111 1110111 01111011110 1111010 11011111101 100010 010111111 1111111 1101111010111 101111001 1011101101 10010111 01010101010 1111101111 1011110101 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 715
Words 170
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

I wrote this poem about letting go of someone I never wanted to live without.

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Submitted by abby.g.kangas on March 11, 2024

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Abby Kangas

I am 19 years old, and I live in Virginia. I have had a short story published in an anthology before, but I am just starting to grow into becoming a writer. more…

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