Analysis of Waterski

John Marquez

Breezing by, o so fast
Breezing by, flat like glass
Beauty clean, free of sound
I appear, fierce motor pound
Blown apart, loathsome splash
Blown apart, sea water thrash
All alive, not like glass

Scheme ABCCDDB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11111 101111 1011101 101101 1011101 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on October 18, 2023

Submitted by nedwards on October 19, 2023

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