The Death of A Cockroach
A comely Cockroach that
I saw in my toilet
Moved it's whiskers
Caught a Moth in it's mouth tips
Fluttered hither and thither
Enjoying itself there
Flustered me in the flurry
Waved my hands against the intruder
Suddenly it fell into the toilet
I flushed the toilet
That comely Cockroach
Caught in the whirlpool
It wheeled wheezed whined and whelmed
What is our fate it is God who deemed.
About this poem
This poem is about fate that we don't know the ways of fate affect us.
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Written on October 10, 2020
Submitted by Josekumarkk on November 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXX CCCC BBXX AX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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