Analysis of Oh, Sewer Dove



You live in the sewer.
Gore, shit, vermin,
Well furnished.
A bed, a hairbrush,
And someone to talk to.

You were born to the sewer,
Vile.
Stringy hair, bubbling skin,
Deformity.
The sewer is too good to you.

Does the dove birthed to the sewer,
Blind, sick,
Deserve it any less than the rat?
Cold.
Can the dove fly again to skies, blue?

The sewer does not care for loyalty,
For fate.
The skies allow with open arms.
Unclipped wings,
The sewer dove refuses you.

Oh, sewer dove,
Why the sewer?

Oh, sewer dove,
Why the sky?


Scheme abxxc axbdc axxxc dxxxc Ea Ex
Poetic Form
Metre 110010 1110 110 0101 01111 1011010 1 1011001 0100 01011111 10111010 11 011101101 1 101101111 0101111100 11 01011101 11 01010101 1101 1010 1101 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 524
Words 125
Sentences 14
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted by DaisyMMontgomery on October 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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