Analysis of Canonball
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
Scheme | abcd dexacx fcgx FAcx FAg xgx aeabbxbdcacfxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1 111 101 11 11101 101 101 1101 0010 10111 110111 11 1 101 1010 10110111011111111011 1101 101 1010 10011 111 1110 10101 1011111111 1 1 1 1 1 1 10101 10011 110100 11 1 111010 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 901 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3, 14 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Inspired by Alexander Kent
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