Analysis of Fishing Tanka
Amelia Michelle Nicol 1990 (Denver)
An opaque line bent
beneath the surface water
tension breaks focus
angular space caught fishing
working displacement values
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 10111 0101010 10110 1001110 1001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 123 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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