Analysis of Dog!



Dog-man`s best friend?

Dog, man`s best friend since who know just when,
generally ends up Christened Sam, Bill or Ben,
Butch, Rex or Tiny(even if he`s built like a rhino`)
There`s no other companion-(well,not that I know)
who, one day can be friendly and `sit up and beg`,
then the next cheerfully savage the postman`s leg.
He doesn`t worry about VAT, or tax on income,
his life is eat some, bury some, sleep some.
Each day filled with the odd `forty winks`,
or frightening the life out of poor old Jinks,
a collar is all that is tied around his neck,
he can afford to deal from the `top of the deck`
and be eager to please his master/mistress,
staying loyally by their side in times of distress,
but, after a bad day at the office, at him, don`t rant,
`cos he`ll just `c*ck his leg` and water your plant
and, in arguments, to sides he`ll just not be drawn
he`d rather be digging his favourite bone from your lawn,
or lay there and dream of days when he `staked his pitches`,
playboy pooch `Casanova supreme` to the local b*tch*s!
But,when all`s said and done, no friend can better,
whether spaniel, corgi, plain mongrel or setter,
the love or the joy of a dog in your life........
he can`t answer back like a trouble and strife!?
(`trouble and strife`, Cockney slang-wife)


Scheme X AABBCCDDEEFFXGHHIIXGJJKKK
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 111111111 100011101111 1111010111101 11100101111 111111001101 10110010011 11100111111 1111110111 11110111 11000111111 010111110111 110111101101 01101111010 1010011101101 11001110101111 111111101011 001001111111 110110111111 1110111111110 11111010111 1110111110 10101011110 01101101011 11101101001 10011011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,271
Words 233
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 25
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted by paintedlady on May 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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