Analysis of Spiritual Exemplars
People seem to lessen
Animals advance
People seem to worsen
Animals enhance
People harm anyone
Dogs bark up a tree
People often seek fun
Dogs often show glee
People image a roam
Pigs oink for a bud
People enjoy a home
Pigs enjoy the mud
People devise a plot
Fish ingest the deep
People all need a lot
Fish need only sleep
People cry in a hood
Cats purr in content
People pay little good
Cats pay no one rent
People snivel in spite
Birds whisper a song
People do little right
Birds do zero wrong
| Scheme | ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101110 10001 101110 10001 10110 11101 101011 11011 101001 11101 100101 10101 100101 10101 101101 11101 101001 11010 101101 11111 10101 11001 101101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 471 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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