Analysis of Noah the Cat in a modern Greenwich London Flat
Meow..
He is now big and burly
but when we got him he was tiny.
We bought him from Dagenham
not far from our flat in London Town.
Bonnie fell in love with him
soon as she saw him as a kitten.
I remember bringing him home in a cage in the tube,
he was of a teensy size
but with big green eyes.
He seemed tense as he was led high
meowing with a heart grabbing feeble cry
I cannot forget that scene in my mind
however much I try.
Noah was just beginning his life as a pampered modern cat
in a cosy modern Greenwich London flat.
He is verily
fond of his food,
he would even stealthily
grab from our plates
even if we push him away from our space,
he is right proud of a big modern cat
in a modern Greenwich London flat.
Bonnie was his loving Mother
I am the geriatric Grandfather
who would visit them whenever
and Noah the cat
in the cosy Greenwich flat
was often to be found on Bonnie’s piano where for long he would be sat,
lost in his light slumber
or mesmerised by some flies asunder.
We got Noah long before we heard
of ‘A street Cat named Bob’ ever
who had befriended a homeless man
down and out away with his clan.
Bonnie and I had read their true story
and could relate to our own agonising history.
My heart seemed to miss a beat by a hook
when I was reading in a passage of a book
about Bob the cat’s fabulous antics
when he was briefly lost on the crowded London streets.
It brought tears to my eyes when I read their true tale of comradeship,
redemption and survival.
Little did I know then that our own story
would become so tragic after all,
and those tears in later years
would become a tsunami , unable to bear.
Now Bob is no more
and so is my daughter
lost for ever.
Alas, Noah the cat
had to leave
his modern Greenwich London flat
when his mother bade farewell to us
and the agony began piling up amass.
Does Noah the big proud cat
sense that his mother is no more
as we the mortals gather grief galore?
Noah the modern Greenwich flat cat
is now resigned to a new place,
no more in his usual space
but happy where he now is
at his father’s loving gaze.
Meow…
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Metre | 01 1111010 111111110 111110 1111010101 1010111 111111010 10101011001001 1110101 11111 11111111 110110101 1100111011 10111 1011010111010101 00101010101 111 1111 11101 11101 101111011101 1111101101 001010101 10111010 11001010 11101010 01001 0010101 110111110101111111 101110 11111010 111010111 10111110 110100101 10101111 1001111110 010111011100 1111101101 111100010101 0110110010 1111011010101 11111111111111 0100010 101111110110 101110101 0110101 101001001011 11111 011110 1110 011001 111 11010101 11101111 001000110101 1100111 11110111 1101010101 100101011 11011011 11011001 1101111 1110101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,039 |
Words | 412 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9, 7, 8, 4, 6, 6, 3, 5, 9 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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How animals can bring joy and salvation to humans…
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