Analysis of Turtle Trip by DeDe A. Reid



Running water, a fizzled bubbly drip.

Silent communications with a turtle name Trip.

Glide and swimming in a short distance tank.

Sinking and diving to the bottom, with only the water he drank.

One claw pressed across the clear thick glass.

As we look at one another, food for thought, it's dark, and dinnertime has passed.

So I sprinkle a little turtle food in the tank where he swims along, but all alone.

We keep each other's company as he surf to the top of water; to eat the aquatic pellets, while  I surf  the web on my cellphone.


Scheme A A B B X X C C
Poetic Form
Metre 1010010101 100010101011 1010001101 10010101011001011 111010111 111110101111101011 1110010101001111011101 1111010011110111011001010111011110
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 530
Words 99
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 52
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on July 26, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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