Analysis of The Evening Tide
Rolling crest,
From Peak
To Trough,
Downward, inward,
Reaching the
Depths of the soul.
Slowly Increasing,
To Heights
Never Yielding
As The Tide
Reaches inland
Covering all.
| Scheme | XXXXXX AXAXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11 11 1010 100 1101 10010 11 1010 101 101 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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