Analysis of Adventurer
How desert islands
in a cartoonist's imagination
invariably are flat,
palm-studded
peopled by a solitary, abject
yet humorous man.
In real time, no delight;
such islets
are razor hot,
rock sharp
treeless, barren
slabs ... examples
of art shirking, but
not shrinking life.
Three days growth of beard,
bottle with note on the incoming tide
comic survivor swimming up
(tramp steamer in the distance),
shirts waved in unison
predictable disappointment et al,
glum hands to face
then the inevitable credulity
splitting retort
amid plaything for the crabs.
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Metre | 11010 0010010 0100011 110 101010010 11001 011101 110 1101 11 1010 1010 11101 1101 11111 101110101 10010101 1100010 110100 010001011 1111 10010000100 101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 10 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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