Analysis of A Fisherman's Meal
Each day he goes to the same beach end
where he then finds his nets and his baskets
calmly pulls them all from the sea to land,
checks the inside as if it were caskets.
The sea creatures he caught go to the markets
but some are already dead. Still he lays
these on a cloth. A dead fish never pays
so he takes it: his own want can’t be cloyed.
Giving their lives, these dead ones had their says;
with all of them a meal will be enjoyed.
Scheme | ABCBBDDAEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111110111 1111110110 1011110111 1001111010 01101111010 1110101111 1101011101 1111111111 1011111111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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