Analysis of Their Wish
They tied together a cat
and a dog wishing
we became like them.
You took the bait
and the cat you became
forcing on me the whimpers of a mongrel.
I hate that look
I loathe that cloak
of the cat and dog in us.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1101001 00110 10111 1101 001101 101101101 1111 1111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on November 09, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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