Analysis of The leather bound novel
Leo Long 1986 (Durban)
I pull open the cover,
a trap door to the deck.
“Weigh the anchor!”
and with a splash the adventure begins.
”Trim your sails!”
and the curtain flaps behind me.
The bow of Old Salt splits the waves
and I wipe the spray from my glasses.
There’s mutiny aboard the ship.
With cutlasses drawn I hear them charge,
the “pok-pok” of a peg leg
is my dad at the door.
“It’s twelve gone”, he says
and I see them fall to the deck.
In the heat of the action
there’s no time to count the loss!
There’s a shout from the door,
“They’ve scuttled the ship!”
My feet get cold
as the hull fills up.
The water is rising
it dowsers my candle.
The crew is sprawled awkwardly on the still, red-dyed deck,
as the leather bound novel falls from my bed…
Scheme | ABAX XXXX CXXD XBXX DCXX XXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110010 011101 1010 0101001001 111 00101011 01111101 011011110 11000101 1111111 0111011 111101 11111 01111101 0011010 1111101 101101 11001 1111 10111 010110 11110 0111100101111 10101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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