Analysis of That Darn Cat!
An early evening walk, the warmth of the day
Almost gone with just a little nip to chase our heels.
At the end of our mind clearing walk-
I notice a cat on the fence.
It looks like it wants to come down.
Meowing and skittling to hold onto the steel frame.
While we try coaxing, cooing, and meowing
For it to come down.
To help the poor thing.
In the end, we back away from the cat.
We scare it from the other side
Of the fence with sticks,
Then it comes down,
But then proceeds to go back up.
I go to see what in the blazes the cat is doing
And you admonish me to back off.
The frenzy hairball darts around
In circles like the Tasmanian devil.
Finally it runs back into the local
Comedian's house or thereabouts.
"That Darn Cat!"
Scheme | ABCDEFCEGHIJEKGLMNNOH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101101 1111010111101 1011101101 11001101 11111111 1011110011 111101001 11111 11011 0011101101 11110101 10111 1111 11011111 11111001001110 010101111 0101101 0101010010 10011101010 01001101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 563 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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Submitted on April 07, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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