Collied Carpets
Our carpets all were clean, as were our lives,
before those scores of slummy collies came
to stain the once pristine. No mat survives
unscathed by scat or scum. We're not the same
young pups of thirty years ago. Too many
old wags pulled from pounds have made their marks,
dried urine laced with tears for those whose penny
dropped too soon. The sounds of silenced barks
still echo through our rooms, the warp and woof
of rugs and dogs. The place seems empty now,
no shaggy dogs to groom who raised the roof
in joyous play. Their grace is gone. And how
will home and heart now bear such scars again,
we muse, as we prepare the new dog's den.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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