Analysis of Furball A Spuddy Cat Tale
Scratching, fighting, biting.
Hands raw with needlepoint marks,
hands roar with- stop you're hurting me,
but relentless, he just keeps at it.
Ball of fur, you're just a ball of fur,
another tickle annoys him.
Fighting, the hard case of the flat,
cock of this floor easily,
he strolls around,
picking on the plants,
making sure they don't overgrow their spot.
Books used as stepping stones never complain,
the last time they were knocked to the floor
with a back-kick.
Scratching, the wallpaper takes him on,
loses every time but has a go anyway.
Strips of soldiers go a.w.o.l.
No full platoon anymore,
but manages the best it can.
Biting, new trainers are not so new anymore,
he took a bite then swallowed whole,
the laces were spat out, along with a fur ball.
All is as it should be,
so it's time to chase those dreams.
Scheme | XXAX XX XAXXX XBX XXCBX BCC AX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 111101 11111101 101011111 111110111 01010011 10011101 1111100 1101 10101 10111111 1111011001 011101101 1011 10010111 101001110110 111011 110101 11000111 10110111101 11011101 010011011011 111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 800 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 5, 3, 5, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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