Analysis of The Dog Lovers
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
So they bought you
And kept you in a
Very good home
Cental heating
TV
A deep freeze
A very good home-
No one to take you
For that lovely long run-
But otherwise
'A very good home'
They fed you Pal and Chum
But not that lovely long run,
Until, mad with energy and boredom
You escaped- and ran and ran and ran
Under a car.
Today they will cry for you-
Tomorrow they will buy another dog.
| Scheme | abcdefCaghCigijkal |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 01100 1011 110 11 011 01011 11111 111011 110 01011 111101 1111011 0111100010 101010101 1001 0111111 011110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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