Analysis of Pod of big ones moaning



Out now 2 hours
Settled in course
Between coast and
Three islands
only marginal wind.
Sam rubs his eyes
From all the watching
For humpback.

Suddenly a grey hillock
Emerges from the brine.
One large eye checking
Us out with benevolence.
Wake jumping ship
From his rear end
Sam going nuts now.
I lock in our speed.

Then a second, third and fourth.
Spume going everywhere.
Communal moanings
Transfixed.
But not those holy sounds
As when deep down.
And Leviathan meets his God.


Scheme AXXXXXBX XXBXXXXX XXAXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 1001 0110 110 101001 1111 11010 11 1000110 010101 11110 1110100 1101 1111 11011 110101 1010101 11010 0101 01 111101 1111 00100111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 477
Words 97
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 7
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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Whale watching while out for fish in Pacific.

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Submitted by dougb.72572 on April 28, 2024

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