Analysis of To Be As We Are To Be
Oh to be a cat in the sun on a summer day.
To drift through the days and scamper through nights,
from the bake of the rays and the squeal of the mice.
To chatter so loudly,
to play as we like.
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life.
Yet the sun also sets,
the coldest of regrets.
Our paws once will shrivel,
our skin will abscess.
The lightest of touches,
the softest caress,
the heaviest hand,
and the roughest of pets,
certain to bring only pain in the light of the rest.
To sneak and to sly,
to live and to die.
To slurp and devour,
to dream as we lie.
The sun in a shower,
the beast of the eye.
What lasts is no longer for you and for I.
Oh to be a cat in the sun on a winter day.
To drift through the days and to linger through nights,
from the shock of the wind and the frost of the bite.
In a hand, as a claw, there is nothing so right,
As to chatter so loudly,
to freeze in the light.
To abandon companions and dream of the mice.
To remember the living and live as we like.
Oh, to be loved, as a cat and its fight.
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life.
Scheme | abcdeF ggxhxhxgx iijijii abkkdkcekF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100110101 1110101011 101101001101 110110 11111 101001001001 101101 010101 1011110 10111 010110 01001 01001 001011 1011101001101 11011 11011 110010 11111 010010 01101 11111011011 1110100110101 11101011011 101101001101 001101111011 1110110 11001 101001001101 101001001111 1111101011 101001001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 9, 7, 10 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
About this poem
I miss my cats, but their absence inspires my life.
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