Analysis of To a Mermaid
My heart told me she loved me -
but loved another more.
Not as we loved, but different,
a love from another shore.
A shore that gave her comfort,
a shore that filled her dreams,
not storm-tossed in her little boat
but warm, calm, and serene.
I wondered that she still loved me,
there seemed no reason why,
but she could only answer
"He" was her choice, not "I".
Now when with every sunset
she gazes out to sea
and dreams of the storm that found her heart,
she calls once more to me.
But she was too long coming,
her boat too often beached.
My love lost to an ocean floor
no mermaid ever reached.
Scheme | ABXBXXXX ACXC XAXAXDBD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1111111 110101 11111100 0110101 0111010 011101 11100101 111001 11011111 111101 1111010 110111 1111001 110111 011011101 111111 1111110 011101 11111101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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