Analysis of At the Floodmark
Right on the line between flood and damp sand
you move slowly, with swirling wind entwined,
not knowing what to choose for, to which end
you should go and seek the kind peace of mind.
Your thinking seems like a sea, it won’t find
tranquility, just rolling back and forth
from bits of hope to waves of weary chords
that counteract. As long as this sea goes,
you see no way to proceed, only the wards
between what comes and the tracks of old blows.
| Scheme | ABCBBDEFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1101011011 1110110101 1101111111 1110101111 1101101111 0100110101 1111111101 110111111 11111011001 0111001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 448 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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