Analysis of Cowardly Dogs
What horror have you wrought?
Cowardly dogs!
You will not see
The faces of those who will never be whole.
You will not hold
The sobbing mother, father, daughter, son.
You will not dig
Through ashes and stone,
Praying for any spark of life.
Your heart will not break.
You will not cry a thousand tears.
You will never know
That America will stand.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 1001 1111 01011111011 1111 0101010101 1111 11001 10110111 11111 11110101 11101 1010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 334 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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