Analysis of The Rabbits of Your Affection
I remember hearing once in a class,
Or reading in a tattered dime-store Western,
That a man could starve to death eating rabbits.
No matter how many black-tipped jacks or
Small, plump cottontails one caught
If that was all he ate, there was not enough fat
To keep his body alive.
And, as I sit here under the old oak tree in the park
Writing and watching you harangue passers-by
To pick up their trash or put a leash on their dog,
I feel myself slowly wasting away
On the rabbits of your affection.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101001 11000101110 10111111010 1101101111 11111 111111111011 1111001 01111100111001 10010101101 111111101111 111101001 101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
This poem was first published in 2021.
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Written on July 24, 2021
Submitted by pssteele84 on September 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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