Analysis of Seaside
Sunday summer morning after mass
bustling onto the bus the four of us and parents
falling out the doors soon after at Clery’s Clock
gamboling down to Amiens Street station
with our bags and sand buckets
our cousins and aunt waiting on the platform and
off we clatter on the train to the ocean and we sit
in our favourite spot and splash in the waves before
salad sandwiches and warm sugary tea but no time to linger
the periwinkles hear us coming and clamp onto the rocks
despite their determined steadfastness our aunt prises them
one by one they fall from their battlements and into her sun hat
with a final wave of our hands we climb for the station
we journey back to our northside home and happy as a summer clam.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 10010010111010 10101110111 1111110 11010110 101001101010 11101011010011 010110100101 10100011001111110 011110011001 0110101010111 1111111100001011 101011101111010 11011101101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 720 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 583 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Seaside
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Written on January 01, 2023
Submitted by pmccluskey2 on January 17, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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