Analysis of To My Dog
You're back so soon again! Your errand done?
How quick the gray world, on your morning look
Amazing, dutiful, unfailing one,
Turns into one enormous wonder book!
Come in, my faithful friend and loving guest
And search my heart, to it a comfort be;
Come in, you breathless one from morning quest
And curl around my feet to pleasure me.
You eloquent but shaggy loveliness,
What lured you here from bygone ages back?
What call was it? What dream beyond a guess
Would bring you here from wolfish bivouac?
Was it your need or ours? Ordained a trail
Of faith and hope and love that should not fail.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1111011101 1101111101 0101000101 1011010101 1011010101 0111110101 1011011101 0101111101 11001101 111111101 1111110101 11111110 11111100101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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