Analysis of The Fisherman
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
IN the dark waveless sea,
Deep blue under deep blue,
The fisher drifts by on the tide
In his small pole-balanced canoe.
Above him the cloud-capped hills
Crown the dense jungly sweeps;
The cocoa-nut groves hedge round
The hut where the beach-wave sleeps.
Is it not better so
To be as this Savage is,
Than to live the Wage-slave's life
Of hopeless agonies?
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00111 111011 01011101 01111001 0110111 10111 0101111 0110111 111101 1111101 1110111 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 279 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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