Analysis of The cat and dog story



I caught her paw and kicked some dust,
While our enemies eyed us with disgust!
They have dogged us since old times,
Coz I hogged the limelight with my crimes!
A notorious dog I have always been,
And in my company she is evermore seen;
Beginning from the day I heard her meow,
When we had a row but my heart I did endow;
Because love was a spark and made my tail wag,
Her smile was a mark that I earned the ‘lover' tag.
Soon we were partners and made matters aggravate,
Because we were law-breakers, I and my doting cat;
Together we robbed many of the town,
Never spared a kitchen of any banker or clown!
Thus we made many foes, both canine and feline;
And they envied us for not falling in line!
Their jealousy grew over my fame and Katy's charm,
So they all teamed up to cause us utmost harm;
Chased us in every nook and corner till today,
And we had walls on three sides to our dismay.
They all laughed wildly to find us thus confined,
Planning to hear Katy's whimper while I whined,
Lying in my death bed when they fired every gun,
But I can never see Katy crying and thus I was not done!
I caught her paw and kicked some dust,
While our enemies eyed us with disgust!
And thus we escaped the trap because we are,
One romantic couple whom you can't zap nor put behind the bar!


Scheme AAbbcdeeffghiijjkkllmannAAoo
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11010011101 1111111 11101111 0010011111 00110011101 01010111001 111011111101 01110101111 011011110101 11010011010 0110110101101 0101110101 1010101101011 1111011101 01101111001 110011011011 1111111111 1101001010101 011111111001 11110111101 1011110111 10011111101001 1111011010011111 11010111 11010011101 01101010111 1010101111110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,253
Words 250
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 993
Words per stanza (avg) 250
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Submitted on November 04, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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