Analysis of Fisherman



All of us have met interesting people in our life,
They are not close friends, but they stood out.
Some of them could only do whey they did,
They had the knack of doing things without any doubt.

His name was Pop  Dennis, an older gent,
Taught science at high school well loved and known.
But fishing was his pride and joy
Bamboo pole, hook, line, sinker, he was always alone.

He knew the secret place to catch the fish,
By the St Clair River, at a place called the cove.
The pickerel loved their little hideout
But they could never resist Pop Dennis's technique !  

He caught more fish than anybody else
And eventually we knew the reason why,
The way he handled his bamboo pole was not ordinary,
The right  motion of his line was the right attraction.

Now pickerel are the very best eating fish,
Pickerel, fries, cold slaw was right for the menu.
Better than steak, a taste we would always relish,
Eggs, crackers, , butter in the pan was never an issue.

No one could duplicate Pop Dennis's technique,
He was the master fisherman, a relic of the past.
The giggle of his line made him so unique,
I am glad I knew him, a  fisherman of class !


Scheme XAXA XBXB CXAD XXXX CECE DXDX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 11111100100101 111111111 1111101111 1101110101101 1111101101 1101111101 11011101 011111011101 1101011101 101110101101 010011101 11110011101 1111110001 001000110101 01110101111100 0110111101010 110010101101 100111111010 10110111110 11010001110110 1111001101 1101010010101 01011111101 11111101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,116
Words 211
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 147
Words per stanza (avg) 36

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The art of fishing

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Written on August 11, 2021

Submitted by Mcclintock on August 11, 2021

Modified on April 12, 2023

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