Analysis of ALLIGATOR DANCE
Up the miry river bank
Itinerant and grinning imitators
Dankly vowing poverty—uncanny
Instigators with shiny eyes expanding.
Dancing satirically, profanely preening
Commanding swords of the glades
Feeding on sacraments of daredevil visitors
Blades of ivory ground and sharpened.
Harkening the sound of digestible
Prisoners like pathological Friars
Detestably shredding the indifferent
Tithe of the almost dead, the devoted dead.
© Copyright 2024 Kenneth Boyd
| Scheme | XAXB BXAX XAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 0100010100 110100010 1001101010 101110 0101101 101100110100 111001010 10110100 1001010010 1100010 1101100101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
Where I live in Florida, alligators are 'dead' serious. But watch them closely. They sit on the sidelines, like the waiting room for ballroom dancers. When it's their turn they're fast--swinging their way to their prey. It's a dance, a dangerous dance.
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