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.
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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 |
About this poem
Whale watching while out for fish in Pacific.
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