Analysis of Sail
Joshua Stone 1987 (Portsmouth, Virginia)
To the seas we sail,
To the ports we long for,
We have been seen wanting,
We do not give up,
We shall see once again a port of long missing,
Till then we keep sailing,
For fair winds and calm seas are what we hope to see,
Let us travel within his embrace and seek his guidance.
| Scheme | ABCDCCEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 101111 111110 11111 111101011110 111110 111011111111 11100110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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