Analysis of Foxhound Puppies
William Henry Ogilvie 1869 (Scotland) – 1963
Great big lolloping lovable things!
Rolling and tumbling on every lawn,
Tearing at slippers and bones and wings-
Wonderful loot from the ash-heap drawn:
Foxhound puppies
Contented puppies
Dipping your ears in the dews of dawn!
Lapping your porridge at farm-house doors,
Cracking a biscuit, robbing a nest
Printing your tracks upon kitchen floors,
Dodging a broom when the cooks protest;
Foxhound puppies,
Delinquent puppies,
Cursed for a moment and then caressed!
Wandering out where the spaniels walk,
Following slow when the guns go by,
Streaking for home when the twelve-bores talk,
Clumsy and puzzled and suddenly shy;
Foxhound puppies
Bewildered puppies
Lone and unwanted and wondering why!
Never mind puppies, your day will come;
By distant coverts your kingdoms wait,
When the spaniels doze and the guns are dumb
And hoofs are loud by the bridle gate;
Foxhound puppies,
Yet scarcely puppies,
Raised as you are to a hound's estate.
Lost will your lolloping ways be then,
Your timid glance and your shrinking pose,
As you shoulder the gorse in glade and glen,
Lifting the line that your tongues disclose;
Foxhound puppies,
No longer puppies,
But trusted names that the huntsman knows!
Scheme | ababCcbdedeCcefgfgCcghihiCcijkjkCck |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 1111001 10010011001 101100101 100110111 110 01010 101100111 101101111 100101001 101101101 10011011 110 01010 110100101 10011011 100110111 101110111 1001001001 110 01010 1001001001 101101111 11011101 101100111 011110101 110 11010 111110101 1111111 110101101 1110010101 100111101 110 11010 110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,165 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 962 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 193 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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