Analysis of Whose Look Deceives...



Dogs obey,
Cats defer,
the difference something grand

Loyalty wags
its loving tail
—as purring hides the fangs

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 101 0100101 1001 1101 110101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 132
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by sage48 on June 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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