Analysis of Fraulein Katze
Samuel B. Duff 1981 (Michigan)
She’ll come or go at her own discretion
I never know just which direction
I’ve seen her teleport-
From here to there in an instant
One point
Then the next
Without crossing the distance
Always alert
even when snoozing
Which
To tell the truth
She is, usually
Under the bed or perched on a shelf
Forty times a day she cleans herself
There’s a gleam in her eyes
A glow in the back
She’ll bust out her claws
Spit
And arch her back
But when she’s calm
She loves to purr
She’s quite intelligent
And has clean soft fur
Some folk’s proclivities run
Towards the canine kind
But me I’m loyal to felines.
Scheme | AABCDEFGHIJKLLMNOPNQRCRAST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101010 110111010 110101 11110110 11 101 0110010 101 10110 1 1101 111000 100111101 101011101 101001 01001 11101 1 0101 1111 1111 110100 01111 1101001 01011 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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