Cannonball



Canonball  tearing throughtimbertthick
planks
Canonball,     rips thrufleshthroughout
theotherside a hole;:

canonfire        CANONBALL!
        Fszzt fzt Water wave
Cutlass STrikes  
Daggers dag
Flintlock singles out
assassination

Pirate swing from boomrope
Young Naval Guards stand ground
BooM!! Canonfire
BooM!

Pirate ship
Due Archipelago
Naval Fleet Frigate limps to Harbour Home, Bones that night work cut out not a numbbing aggennt
to ease a groan...

Pirate Ship
due archipelago
   Following One Star

Threads through reef
hidesincove drops anchor    
   Water Main concern

Waiting for Tide to turn to test metalagainstreefrock Rockyreefsrock
Rockyreeff
Rockyreefsrock
rockyreefs
REEFSSS
reefrockysh
RRsshh
Waves against the timberhull
Porpoises flew dived
   Seagull scrounging, circling,   
  windwinding round
 pirateship
Set for plunder, richness
Following one star North

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1800s sea battle fiction

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Written on January 10, 2022

Submitted by zengda on April 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abcd dexacx fcgx FAcx FAg xgx aeabbxbdcacfxx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 898
Words 138
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3, 14

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