Analysis of Hither and Yon
There was an old man
Who adopted two cats
And named them
Hither and Yon.
He ushered his cats
Outdoors to play
And they scampered
This and that way.
He looked to call
Them back to him
As they gamboled,
Hither and Yon.
But which was which
And who was who?
He could not
Tell them apart.
Names didn’t matter
As the cats did scatter
In fields of golden rye
Beneath a cerulean sky.
His fretting meant scant
And yet came a rant,
Which one are you,
He screamed?
So off they went,
Hither and Yon,
To hide beneath the cerulean sky
Within their field of dreams.
When at last
His temper waned
The old man
Lumbered home.
He reached the porch
As the sun was setting
And there for a petting
Perched Hither and Yon.
Scheme | abxC bded xxeC xfxx gghh iifx xChx xxax xjjc |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (22%) |
Metre | 11111 101011 011 1001 11011 1111 0110 1011 1111 1111 111 1001 1111 0111 111 1101 1110 101110 011101 01011 11011 01101 1111 11 1111 1001 1101011 011111 111 1101 011 11 1101 101110 011010 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 712 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
Living life free of "ownership," embracing the moment.
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Written on November 22, 2022
Submitted by DJGillert on November 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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