Analysis of Reighn
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I scorched the sand
As I crushed light
Like making lemonade
On the beach
Then I saw reighn
Like sky over the sea
As the great whale withdrew
Tiny sand fingers flooded
over my feet.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
Metre | 1101 1111 110101 101 1111 111001 101101 1011010 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 182 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on June 23, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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