Analysis of following fish
I said goodbye to my sanity today
I could not keep it and still love you
for following you was never a rational thing.
So I keep stowing away on ships
talking to the silent fish
and leaving a blood trail for them to follow.
To drain my heart overboard daily
I must drink the sea to replenish it,
one can get used to a mouth of salt.
And one can get used to the unbalanced
waves, the lighted and slippery prow,
laughing into a storm.
One can get used to a face of water
a diet of biscuits, shivering
with wind and sail. Insanity
is not a voyage I am scared of.
I fear instead staying on the shore
and forgetting you.
Scheme | XAB XXX CXX XXX XBC XXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110001 111110111 1100111001001 11110111 1010101 01001111110 11111010 1110110101 111110111 0111110010 101001001 100101 1111101110 010110100 11010100 110101111 110110101 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Published in On The Platform, Waiting: a Writers Group Anthology. Smashwords. 2018
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Written on April 02, 2014
Submitted by Ariel on September 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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