Analysis of Fishing Lesson # 9



I was a good kid, my mother said, take him fishing.
You know that's what he has been wishing.
"Ok! Ok! Were off to fish today."
My Dad taught me lessons #1 to 8. Let me translate.
We caught a bunch of trout and had them for supper.
Was that super. He said lesson # 9 is to dispose of
the bones in the fire or wild animals we would aquire.
I had special plans for my bones. I would put them
under my cot, but I soon forgot, until late that night,
when there was a fight. Three or four skunks were
eating my bones. They weren't all friends I could
tell by there tones. Their tails were sticking up at
the edge of my bed. This idea went though my head.
So I snuck out my hand and grabbed a tail with a jerk.
I was right they all went bezerk. You would've thought
that was a mistake, but it was not. No stink was shot.
And fishing lesson #9 I never forgot.


Scheme AABCDEDFGDHIJKLMM
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111011110 111111110 1111011101 11111011101 110111011110 1110111011011 01001011100111 111011111111 10111110101111 1110111110 10111101111 11111101011 0111110101111 1111110101101 11111111101 1100111111111 0101011001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 836
Words 176
Sentences 21
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 643
Words per stanza (avg) 175
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Submitted on February 14, 2015

Modified on March 30, 2023

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