Analysis of The Dragon and the Pests
The dragon curled as tight as ice
Was the length of the sky ten-fold
She preferred to guarantee her fills
As she had to often been without food and cold
She slept on the mountains
Curling around them for to small where hills
Though a dragon whilst unearthing she was never very bold
On one day the dragon’s roar
Was heard from far and wide
The military set the thunderbirds a-soar
To take the dragons hide
When the dragon saw those winged beasts
She flew direct and straight
And blew their metal wings to east
For it was check-mate
The thunderbirds had failed
And so, their captain bailed
The military fumed
For they knew the dragon loomed
For more lunch was she after
And the military couldn’t starve her
They sent out an offering
Rare metals and the rest
For she only ate these metals
And never meat and flesh
They knew that she could slaughter
But unprovoked would rest
They hid among the nettles
Awaiting her return
They where well prepared
For they each came with their net
By their side was their rum
They waited and they waited
For they knew that she would come
She finally appeared for she had been baited
They shot at her their nets though she didn’t seem to care
She shrugged them off like water going through an outlet
She hissed and she roared
Then flew off with their metals
Back to her mountain
And her kettles
She passed by the fountain
And back home she soared
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 10110111 10110101 111110101101 111010 1001111111 101010101110101 1110101 111101 0100101001 110101 10101111 110101 01110111 11111 01011 011101 01001 1110101 1111110 00100110 1111100 110001 11101110 010101 1111110 10111 1101010 010001 11101 1111111 111111 1100110 1111111 110001111110 111011111111 111111010111 11011 1111110 11010 0010 111010 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,343 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Written on July 30, 2021
Submitted by Riley_Grimwood on July 30, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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