Analysis of Broken Seashells
No one likes the broken seashells
Bare bones bleached white and forgotten
They scream alone and ask the sea
What sand did our souls get lost in?
Like little whales they cry in hand
As the gulls swoop down to mock them
They cry because they can not mend
Then the sea flails up to crush them
| Scheme | ABCDEFGF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 11110010 11010101 111101110 11011101 10111111 11011111 10111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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