Analysis of The Cay
A clear new day dawns on the eve of this storm I've weathered.
A casualty, again, of my own optimism.
I now fear the hopes I hold in the intentions of fellow man-
Drowning, far too often, in this well-spring of sanguine dreams.
Reality revealed, so bright in the haze of my reverie
It pains me- a sharp stab of knowledge hidden from oneself.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101111110 0100001111100 1110111000101101 10111001111101 10011100111100 1110111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 336 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on October 05, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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