Analysis of My Dog Is Dead
I hear the sound
Of crashing planes
I then find out
It’s crashing trains.
Bodies lay
All on the ground
They do not move
Don’t make a sound
‘My dog, my dog”
Is all I say
So I get down
And start to pray.
Between the trains
I see his head
It is too late
My dog is dead.
| Scheme | ABCBDAEAFDGDBHIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1101 1111 1101 101 1101 1111 1101 1111 1111 1111 0111 0101 1111 1111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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This is the first poem I had ever written
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