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 |
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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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