Analysis of Sounds from the Hen House
Words from words the owl heard
and so the rooster crowed
wolfie watched and waited
for what the owl knows
Rooster really likes to sing
But owl writes the words
Wolfie doesn't give a d*mn!
He's obsessed with her.
There are love songs
and there's twisted rhyme
Rooster wolf and owl
but there also is a butterfly
who sometimes gets to howl
And if the maiden with six wings
dances with the fire
even wolfie stays away
no need for such desire...
Wanton words on paper
wolfie whispered to the owl
owl quickly scratched them down
so wolfie then could howl
Rooster let him have his way
with barks and bites and grunts
but rooster knew when morning came
he would get the final say
about the little....stunt!
...When the rooster's in the room.
R Andrews
10 25 14
Scheme | AXXXXXBCXXDXDXCECCDBDEXXEAX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 010101 11010 11011 1010111 11101 1101011 10110 1111 01101 10101 11101010 101111 01010111 101010 101101 1111010 101110 110101 110111 11111 1011111 110101 11011101 1110101 0101 101001 11 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 724 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 2 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on November 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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