Analysis of Wise Owl and Teapot Trivet (a haiku fable)
Hand and Heart warmers,
Wise Owl and Teapot Trivet
share Wood Stove's corners.
Four-legged Teapot
leaps into Wood Stove's ashes
playing hide and seek.
Wise Owl wants to play,
"But who'll warm Mr. Coffee,
if I fly away?"
As Dawn breaks Darkness,
Snow flurries on His Starkness.
Wise Owl, she worries.
The whole Day passes,
without her Teapot friend it
flows like Molasses.
"Hoot!", cries Wise Owl, "Hoot!"
Wood Stove has filled with ashes
to my feathered foot.
"Soon my friend I'll lose,
if Wood Stove doesn't sift him
from the chars and soot."
Blowing smoke, hot air,
hollow Stove Pipe whistles high
from his housetop lair:
"NO SWEAT for THIS team,
loosing impish Teapot who
rusts ME with his steam!"
"Oh Dear", Wise Owl shrieks,
puts on her thinking cap of
mortar-boarded peaks.
"We'll find a new home,
me and Teapot far away
from this pleasure dome."
"No time to be lost,
I'll dive down into Wood Stove
before Tea gets tossed."
"Our friendship will rise
like a Phoenix from ashes,
an Owl in disguise."
Scheme | ABA BAX CXC AAA ABA BAB AXB DXD EXE AXA FCF BXB AAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 11011 11110 1101 1011110 10101 11111 1111010 11101 11110 1101110 11110 01110 010111 11010 11111 1111110 11101 11111 1111011 10101 10111 1011101 1111 11111 101011 11111 11111 1101011 10101 11011 101101 11101 11111 1110111 01111 101011 1010110 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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