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.


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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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Rebecca Olsson

I started writing in 3rd grade when I got bored at school. I just never stopped. I have been a Journalist, a patient car coordinator, An Assistant Auctioneer at an Auction gallery that dealt in Russian Icons and other antiquities, I am a wife, a friend, a human being and I happen to have RRMS. Ask me what it is nicely and I might tell you. more…

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