Analysis of Sink or Swim.
Tonight I won
My prize I won
I spent many years pulling, aching for the fish to bite....
The ditches that surround me are full of what we call: Left overs...
My knee is waist deep in boredom yet my feet are happy to oblige the cynical tiles of which we step...
I can't help but rake the flowers that grow from the rotting demeanor which lines the hooks I lay...
Around your Adamant Waist....
I won't grab a thing...
| Scheme | A A X X X X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 1111 11101101010111 0101011111111110 11111010111110101010011111 11111010111010010110111 0111001 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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