Analysis of The Dunnowhat Bug
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
I don’t know his lifespan
Stretched in the sunshine
Card table top
By the window.
Cottage is ours
For ten days.
Lyn is off teaching for the summer.
I have the same from the store.
Except a meeting next Tuesday
Bug here on the table flies.
Does he have appointments.
A mate? With scant attentions.
Resentments from past rivals?
Children that will
Will he see the sunrise
Or fall to a cold floor.
Long abdomen, six legs.
Shimmering wings, lengthy.
Does his composite eye
See 50 images of me?
Of that salt shaker?
So much done, invented
For the little gaffer
Who has only a couple of days.
To graduate, replicate, fascinate.
And then drop, crinkle and
Turn to the etherial.
His Maker scratching
His head for the next good idea.
Scheme | X X X X X A B C D E X X X F E C X D X D B X B A X X F X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1001 1101 1010 10110 111 111101010 1101101 01010110 1110101 111010 0111010 0101110 1011 11101 111011 101011 100110 110101 110011 11110 111010 10101 111001011 11001010 01110 1101 11010 111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 29 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 20 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Written on February 13, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 13, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 13, 2023
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