Analysis of Stung



I was sitting by the window of my little bungalow
when I heard the garden gate being opened down below.
To my horror what I saw was a filthy-looking man
with a stained and tattered raincoat and a Gypsy Traveller tan.

In his hand he held a rope of heavy braided cord
attached to a Bull Mastiff, a massive dog good lord.
After only several paces this monster cocked a leg
then squatted down and shit, enough to fill a keg.

My lovely crazy paving was crowned with steaming dung
and I was paralysed as if I'd just been stung.
"I've come to clean your garden" said the man with a nicotine smile,
"Fifty quid to you old son; and for another fiver I'll also clean that pile."


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11101010111010 11101011010101 11101111010101 101010100101001 0111101110101 0110110010111 10101010110101 11101011101 1101010111101 0111111111 111111010110101 1011111010101110111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 677
Words 131
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on September 29, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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David Gabriel Caplan

Brought up by a Jewish father and a French Catholic mother. Both of whom relegated religion to the category of " fairy tales." I thank them for their wisdom. I have had several interesting jobs in my life, both in the UK and in Australia, but the last 27 years before I retired were spent as a University Print Manager. I have been writing poetry since a child. My main interest is in Humour and Flash Fiction. I have one book to my credit, with two others which I am too lazy to do anything about! more…

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