Analysis of Bowl Of water
There was infectious pus germinating in its body,
long silken ears were flooded with tic,
forehead scalp had paltry hair standing,
hard claw nails were badly uprooted from basal connections,
a concoction of blood and water flowed from its eyes,
deep gashes lined round periphery of furry collared neck,
large smudges of dirt adorned its coat of golden brown,
dried pouches of stomach contained decayed food,
its tail which once wagged incessantly when happy,
was now bruised and withdrawn far between its feeble legs.
the same creature hissed fire once,
gave a volley of barks at the slightest provocation,
guarded the mansion at prime cost of its life,
tore apart to pieces venom snakes and unwanted prey,
slept all night cozily tucked between large gentle feet of its master,
devoured chunks of rabbit meat, gulped gallons of water,
licked all in the family from head to toe at faint rising of dawn each day.
as time elapsed, the onset of old age made it stoop,
it now lay neglected at remote corners of the barn,
gasping for breath, uttering subdued groans of agony,
it already knew death was fast approaching,
all it desired at the moment was just its favorite bowl of water,
be filled with inexpensive liquid pouring in abundance,
from the rusty hand pump a few feet away from its worn out body.
Scheme | AXBXXXXXAX CXXDEED XXABECA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110110 110101011 101110110 111010010110010 0010110101111 110110100110101 111101111101 11011001011 111110100110 1110011011101 01101101 1010111010010 10010111111 10111010100101 111110111011110 01011101110110 1100100111111101111 110101111111 11101010110101 10111000111100 10101111010 1101010101111001110 11101010100010 10101101101111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,299 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 350 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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