Analysis of The Ocean, surfing, sharks and a jellyfish or two
I was a lucky one that day.
I was bumped by a shark.
I bear a tiny scar from a part of my leg that had many scars.
It did not like how I smelled, I guess.
It was October and the beach was clear save us.
I stayed in the water and swam out...
A nasty thing hit me with a stinger -
Jellyfish.
Had a doctor in our group
He picked the stingers out
carefully And he peed on
the area. I laid on the beach for a
Another hour of so and the sun felt so
Good on my midwestern skin.
My love of music may have
drawn me to that place.
That Jellyfish, that Shark.
That life.
I wish I had stayed.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIFJKLMNOBPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 111101 11010110111111101 111111111 110100011111 110010011 0101111010 10 10100101 110101 1000111 01001110110 010101100111 1110101 1111011 11111 11011 11 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on August 23, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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