Analysis of Stung
David Gabriel Caplan 1948 (Glasgow)
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 |
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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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