Analysis of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Barry W Smith 1963 (Laon)
One foot in front of the other
With a leash upon my head
This woman that now leads me
Apparently wants me dead
I haven't had such anguish
Since I was just a pup
So if she's going to kill me
I'd had rather not got up
Has this woman never heard
In told wisdom by and by
That in your need to exercise
Let sleeping dogs lie
| Scheme | XABA XCBC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011010 1010111 1101111 0100111 1101110 111101 11110111 1110111 1110101 0110101 1011110 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
I wrote this after watch a lady walk her seemingly uninterested overweight dog in tow behind her. This is what I imagined was going through the dogs mind.
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