Analysis of Flying Fish
So it seems that there are conditions for flight:
not only do you need wings and training,
patience for many belly flops,
plus a liking for flapping,
a tolerance for the toing and froing,
of intentional indifference and brazen lust,
never mind a taste for the new, the strange,
a thirst for adventure,
let alone danger,
but also you need a fortitude
beyond the pull of gravity,
not to mention the depredations of insecurity,
for those future soarings in another sky
have no safety nets or guarantees,
just the wind,
made capricious by some desert planet upheaval,
some Pleiadian eruption,
singing through your pinions
with awesome power.
Scheme | X ABAAXXCC XDDXXXXXBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101011 1101111010 10110101 1010110 010010101 1010001000101 1010110101 011010 10110 11011010 01011100 1110001010100 1110100101 11101101 101 1010111010010 1110 10111 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 10 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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