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 |
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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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