Analysis of Dung beetle



Oh little creature you're older than time,
Out of sight yet you are fine,
One of millions that keep pollution down,
Amazing your diet of waste coloured brown.

Incredible your strength and what you do,
All that effort and your sustenance poo,
How you've survived since millions of years back,
With 7,000 species and mostly coloured black.

Consider the merits of importing these chaps,
Converting to nutriments all our animal craps,
Cows and horses with our numbers high,

Sheep and dry stock would leave nothing to lie.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101011011 1111111 1110110101 01011011101 0100110111 1110011001 1101110111 110010101 010010101011 010111101001 1010110101 1011111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 506
Words 88
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by RowAroundTheMoon on July 05, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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stan brierly

I have been writing poems for forty years and written about all sorts of things. Somehow I get creating streaks and can write up to 4 or 5 poems at once of varying subjects. I find it is a good way to record events of the day and bring history to life.The mental aspect is a balance against keeping fit,work and life in general. more…

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