Analysis of The Tempest
I tried to save you but nearly drowned
The waves of your past crashed into me
Pulling me into rip tides of your suffering
With shipwrecks full of ghosts wanting company
I became one of the specters for awhile
Disappearing from my life and haunting yours
Forgetting I belonged to a world
Outside of the tempest
The eye of storm feels deceivingly safe
But the winds are stronger on the other side
And escaping their wrath is nearly impossible
You abandoned me after the hurricane
The stars tried to console me with the map to freedom
But I refused to look up
And focused on the wreckage
Thinking I was stranded in the middle of the ocean
I heard the mermaids sing
Their serenade resurrecting memories
That isolation and freedom live in the same realm
Maybe your were setting me free
After desperately treading water
I realized that I could swim
And I was closer to the shore than I realized
All I had to do was walk away from the storm
Scheme | XABA XXXX XXXX XXXX BXXA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 011111011 101011111100 1111110100 1011101101 0101110101 010101101 111010 0111111 10111010101 0010111100100 1010110010 0111101101110 1101111 0101010 10111000101010 11011 101010100 101001010011 10101011 1010001010 1101111 011101011110 111111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 947 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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