Analysis of Hung To Dry
Looking out my window watching dry Oklahoma
winds blow clothes off a clothesline.
I see salted fish, pegged in a row
hung to be dried, flapping in the wind.
A Chinese recipe, explains my roommate.
I wonder about what the neighbours
will think. She talks of deep frying
after they bleach.
To eat them eyes, fins, scales intact.
Winking in the sun, opaque eyes bulge
out of flat bodies.
Dessicated as dried
leaves in pages of a book.
With ribbed veins in translucent scales.
Paper-thin fins hold against currents as
fish drink in air with puckered mouths.
Wedge-like ribs straining to swim
upstream. And I wonder if she too is
swimming against the current.
Scheme | XXXX XAXXX XAXXA AAXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110101010 111101 111011001 111110001 0011000111 11001101 11111110 1011 11111101 100010111 11110 111 1010101 11100101 1011101101 1101111 1111011 1101101111 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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