Analysis of The Dog & The Kitty



The Doggie was white,
  and the Kitty was black,
  as they crouched at each end of the floor

Their eyes never met,
  because the rules were set,
  that the dog would chase the cat as before

At night came the darkness,
  and the Kitty stood up
  and headed right straight to the door

But the Doggie just lay there with his head
  on his paws, and thought:
  “Tonight—is quite different for sure”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
 ‘For Kiley, Hunter, Braden & Parker’
            My Grandchildren


Scheme XXA BBA XXA XXX XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01011 001011 111111101 11101 010101 1011101101 111010 001011 01011101 1010111111 11101 011110011 0100101 110101010 110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 501
Words 84
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 02, 2018

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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