Analysis of My Boat Broke
Somewhere between an in and out wave,
my boat broke; it’s an essential
scaled down vessel of my body -
alarm bells began to toll
in the pith and plank of being.
Water being almost always in a fluid state
did the unexpected and played dead,
attaining a most unusual state
of neck down paralysis
and so, head moving left and right
yet frozen beneath,
(assuming there was a beneath),
I remained trapped upwards,
caught like a small fly in a glass of merlot.
The boat, though riddled with holes,
sinks only to the gunnels yet plows on,
gliding gracefully upon a moon-path
toward a moon that had hid its face under
a soggy pillow.
By now I could hear the bed creaking
under the strain of being nudged
by several icebergs.
‘I am not a fruit fly’, I shouted,
as a rising sun
raced to a corner of the bedroom
to watch my dreaming brain
struggle up to the level of its eyes
while I reluctantly bobbed
in the stale undercurrent
of that fourth unwise
glass of red wine.
Scheme | XXAXB CXCX XDDXX XXXXX BXX XXXXE AXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110011 11111010 11101110 0110111 00101110 10101100101 10010011 010010101 1110100 01110101 11001 01011001 101110 11011001110 0111011 1101010111 1010001011 01011111110 01010 111110110 10011101 11010 111011110 10101 11010101 111101 1011010111 1101001 001100 11101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 5, 3, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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