Analysis of The Laughing Tides
The struggles are awesome,
but the yielding is more awesome.
All was of a grace unwhispered
in the avalanche,
uncommanded in the spider's web.
And we knew that there had been no mistakes, leaving something without a name.
All children fail before the darkness.
I am only a little child, embroidered on the night.
And all the gongs blew back on time.
And all the thunders crushed out their scribes,
as we the bells in the crystal night
Dress down our roaring tribes.
The pillars of them that chained the breath
Are matchsticks to the winds.
The sword wherewith I split the hours
Bucks in the laughing tides.
Scheme | AA BXXX XB XCBC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110 10101110 111011 0010 10011 011111110110100101 110101010 11100101010101 01011111 010101111 110100101 1110101 010111101 11101 01111010 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 2, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem after a breakup with someone I loved very much.
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