Analysis of Skeleton
The skeleton lay there upon the sea bed.
It was all on its own but had no head.
Not liking the thought of being this way
His mind wandered back to another day.
A time when his body possessed a head;
very much alive and was not yet dead.
When upon the Madame Guillotine he lay
waiting the blade to fall and end his day.
With head separated from his body
his poor carcass was thrown into the sea
Not liking the thought of being this way
His mind wandered back to another day.
A time when a ship had drawn alongside,
blasting his galleon with a broadside.
When the Kings sailors had clambered aboard
and all of his men were put to the sword.
He alone was kept alive to be tried
by the courts, when back in France he arrived
Not liking the thought of being this way
His mind wandered back to another day.
To a time when he was king of the sea,
and a Captain with power and majesty.
Sailing the seven seas with a rum crew:
Free, with no one telling him what to do.
Master of all and rider of wind and wave
pirating, sending others to their grave
He relished the thought of being this way
and tried not to go to another day.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001101011 1111111111 1100111011 1110110101 0111100101 1010101111 1010101011 1001110111 111001110 1110110101 1100111011 1110110101 0110111011 101100101 1011011001 0111101101 1011101111 1011101101 1100111011 1110110101 1011111101 00101100100 1001011011 1111101111 10110101101 1001010111 1100111011 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,118 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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