Analysis of A Black Dog and Barbed Wire



Look into my eyes and you'll see fog
Look deeper, strive harder you'll find
Barbed wire and a black dog

A dog with barbed wire to bind
To help the dog is to bring pain
But to leave it would not sit well in my mind

So against myself I'll strain
To help the dog, now slick with blood
The barbed wire cutting into my vein

I'll let go and with a thud
As I collapse, defeated and alone
With the dog sitting in the mud

I could give the dog a bone
A pittance for what it's known


Scheme XAX ABA BCB CDC DD
Poetic Form
Metre 101110111 11011011 1100011 01111011 11011111 11111111011 101111 11011111 0110100111 1110101 1101010001 10110001 1110101 0101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 103
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Written on November 24, 2021

Submitted by larrywellsjr03 on November 30, 2021

Modified on May 03, 2023

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