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
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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Modified by ludy_b on November 19, 2021

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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