Analysis of Flamingoes



From the air
Uncountable
Myriads of pink dots
On expanse of African blue.
Down and landed
Trudging mucky shoreline.
Symmetry of thousands
Stilt-legged and poised.
Or bursting into
A consensual ascent.
In a nano-second.
Much more of a thrll it seems
Than those trail dwarfing
Trail meandering elephants.
Observed earlier
In the visit.
Pilot Mburu Pesi passing
High-pitched comment.
Arms waving.
Just us…not National Geographic.
Here.


Scheme ABCBDEFGHIJKLMNOLILPQ
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1 1111 10111001 1010 10101 100110 11001 11001 0010001 001010 1110111 11110 10100100 01100 0010 101110 1110 110 111100010 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 434
Words 76
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 352
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Written on March 06, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on March 09, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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