Analysis of Dogs



Cats in the night
Preyed by the Dogs in the day
With the hair of gray
The old lady goes away
Only because she was preyed
She's dead


Scheme ABBBCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 1101001 10111 0110101 1001111 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 132
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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Dogs

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Written on January 19, 2023

Submitted by benw.58887 on January 19, 2023

Modified on April 18, 2023

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