Analysis of Reeling Them In



The slick-coated fisherman wades
into a river of regret
that reflects his image
and deflects
the wiles of his ways.
Balancing a rod and reel,
he casts deconstructed flies upon the water
where they float just beneath the surface,
luring wide-eyed fish
to bite deep into their fallacies.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 0110101 01010101 101110 001 01111 1000101 111101010 111101010 10111 111011100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 276
Words 48
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 232
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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