Analysis of Harpoon
I was the sea
and you were the whaler.
You cast your harpoon into
my waters. It never did catch
a whale.
But you caught me
time and time again.
| Scheme | ABCDEAF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 010010 1110101 11011011 01 1111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Written on 2017
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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