Analysis of An old tiger.
An old tiger.
The old tiger in the cage,
gasping and sitting idly,
often licking its paws,
and thinking about his glorious past.
Sometimes he is poked by some nuisance from outside the cage.
Few grimace at him.
Few immmitate his voice.
But he bears the grudges,
with infinite patience.
The first streaks of the sun
and pitch dark night don't appeal him.
He knows his life is ebbing away.
He stands and enters his own cell,
to get sleep on straw mat.
It might be his eternal sleep.
Scheme | X AXXX ABX XXXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 0110001 1001010 101011 0100111001 01111111011101 11011 1111 111010 110010 011101 01111011 111111001 11010111 111111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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