Analysis of Fishes
Marcus Holley 1992 (London)
All the fishes got up and jumped out of their tanks
And wandered round the world
And then realise they didn’t much like it out here
The air wasn’t so sweet to breath
And went back inside, empowered.
| Scheme | X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 101011011111 010101 0111111111 0111111 01101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Its about fishes
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Written on 2017
Submitted by SeesawUpendown on January 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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