Analysis of Saša Milivojev - THE MOUSE
Saša Milivojev 1986 (Serbia)
The smell of must and decay
The mouldiness of walls
The smell of dirty dishes
Torn underwear instead of a mop
I look at the crumbs of the floor
I drink yellow water from a filthy glass
I listen to it nibbling on something
Crawling in the sink
Sitting quietly with a cigarette
I saw the tail on the plate
Moving
A puppy under the table
Groaning because of fleas
A bowl with milk
Full of bugs and flies
Ooh
A mouse on the plate
I took a dirty ladle
I’ll go crazy
It pointed its grey ears
I watched it
It watched me sorrowfully
As if it knew its fate
It made no move
The ladle banged on it
It screamed with pain
I’m sorry that it was
A victim of dirty dishes
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJGKLMNOJKPQRKJSRTUC |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111001 0111 0111010 11001101 11101101 11101010101 11011100110 10001 101001001 1101101 10 01010010 100111 0111 11101 1 01101 1101010 1110 110111 111 1111 111111 1111 010111 1111 110111 01011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 647 |
| Words | 136 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 28 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 520 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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