Analysis of My Bones Will Know The Sea
The time has come
I'm tired now
What's done is done
I'm to drown
How long since
Beneath the waves
I lost my ship?
I count the days
I'll never know
And never see
Will my friends
Still think of me?
Or with me
Were they sailing too?
And like me
Were they taken too soon?
I can't tell now
It's too dark to see
And the stinging cold
Has taken my speech
I pray I'm alone
On this, my last day
May the ones I love
Never feel this way
At last I shut my eyes
And sink
With my last spark of life
I think
Though my bones
Will know the sea
She's too great
To ever know me.
| Scheme | XAXX XXXX XBXB BXBX ABXX XCXC XDXD XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0111 1101 1111 111 111 0101 1111 1101 1101 0101 111 1111 111 01101 011 011011 1111 11111 00101 11011 11101 11111 10111 10111 111111 01 111111 11 111 1101 111 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 566 |
| Words | 132 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 32 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Written on January 21, 2022
Submitted by Ender_Locke on January 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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