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 |
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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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