Analysis of The Wise Dog
Khalil Gibran 1883 (Bsharri) – 1931 (New York City)
One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog.
And as he came near and saw that they were very intent and heeded
him not, he stopped.
Then there arose in the midst of the company a large, grave cat and
looked upon them and said, 'Brethren, pray ye; and when ye have
prayed again and yet again, nothing doubting, verily then it shall
rain mice.'
And when the dog heard this he laughed in his heart and turned from
them saying, 'O blind and foolish cats, has it not been written and
have I not known and my fathers before me, that that which raineth
for prayer and faith and supplication is not mice but bones.'
Scheme | X XX AXXX XAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010011011 01111011101001010 1111 11010011010001110 10110110110111 101010110101111 11 01011111011011 1101101011111100 111101100111111 11010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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