Analysis of The Mangy Dog
I saw the world through the eyes of a dog
And the world that I did see
Was a forest of legs whose moving roots
Were forever kicking me.
I cringed from a myriad flailing sticks
A shower of rocks and stones,
And no one or nothing compensated,
Not even my buried bones.
I hid from the man with the net and the gun
The boy with the old tin can,
And summed up my life in the single phrase
"The mangy black mongrel ran!"
I craved for deliverance, some hopeful sign
That mankind would leave me alone,
But my practical bitch-wife said "No hope
Man even preys on his own!"
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101101101 0011111 1010111101 0010101 1110100101 0101101 011110100 1101101 11101101001 0110111 0111100101 010111 11101001101 11111101 1110011111 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on November 04, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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