Analysis of Fish for tea
ish for Tea!
Loud winds howling, tempest thrashing,
Lightning flashing, thunder crashing,
Ship in peril, crew in danger,
Decks awash as waves sweep over,
“Man overboard,” the cry is heard,
Not for the first time, but the third,
Why do fishermen go on working?
Is not a single one of them learning?
That to work ashore is so much safer,
And will allow them to live much later,
Why don’t they from the sea just turn?
As on land more can they earn,
Or is it for the selfish likes of me,
To eat fish that they go to sea,
It is I find perverse and odd,
I expect them to die just for my Cod.
© Aug 2013
Scheme | ABBCCDDBBCCEEAAFFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11101010 10101010 10101010 10111110 1100111 11011101 111001110 1101011110 1110111110 0101111110 11110111 1111111 1111010111 11111111 11110101 1011111111 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Fishing at sea
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