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Festival of Dogs

Ahar Jacob 1986 (Gboko)

Ode
Cluster around my tenement
Who brought you?
For I know not

Savour my food remnants
You befriended me
That's what you prefer

But why?
Why the barks on this
Solemn evening?

I'm thinking nonsense
But the poem and the dogs
Made sense

About this poem

A Simple thought of the company humans enjoy with pets like dogs

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Submitted by aharjim6 on March 27, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXX XXX AXA
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 237
Words 53
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3
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Ahar Jacob

Graguate of Pontifical Urbanian University Rome. Bachelore Degree in Philosophy and Theology. more…

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