Analysis of Everglading
The prop boat is wonderful.
Reeds, branches, mangroves
No problem, Wanderer.
You just skim over.
Easy to get lost in here.
Better have your compass
Dear Dumb Ass.
Portable radio giving out
John Lee Hooker and B.B. King.
Bonnie Raitt. Reba.
Occasional weather bits.
Better listen intently.
Safety and life are in
The parameters of wind, waves, sun
And liquids, lots of them.
Gators all smile at your arrival.
Sunning, warming, lolling.
Snappers plunk off floating logs.
Egret will be a precious find.
White gaily shows against
thriving dark greens.
Muskrats, snappers, wild pigs.
Even cougar or coon so dainty.
Pocket novel on middle bench
Paperback, page folded at number
One eighty seven.
James Lee Burke, teller
Of the Bayou bad times
Bad or confused folk.
Religion occasionally popping in.
Crazy men with modified
Firearms.
Atmosphere, Baby, atmosphere.
Just like the stuff here
Next to you, under
All this green and
Smell of bream.
Tackle box, Po’ Boy sandwiches
Favourite rod, reel.
Six cans beer cooling, wet
On a line immersed.
Daddy’s old weapons.
Daddy’s old luck and skill.
Good day comin’
FOH SHOH.
Heat factor bearable.
Prop curves a gracious
Swooping white arc
Toward larger blue.
Mixing up the water bugs
And mosquitoes.
In their one or
Two day lifespan.
Scheme | ABCCDBB XEXBFGHX AEBXXBBF ICHCBXGXBXDCXX BXXXBXGIA BXXBBX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111100 1101 110100 11110 1011101 101110 111 10010101 1110011 10110 0100101 1010010 100110 001001111 010111 101111010 101010 111101 00110101 110101 1011 1111 101011110 10101101 10110110 11010 11110 101011 11011 01001000100 101110 10 101010 11011 11110 1110 111 10111100 111 111101 10101 1110 11101 111 11 110100 11010 1011 01101 1010101 0010 0111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,337 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 8, 14, 9, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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