Analysis of Festival of Dogs
Ahar Jacob 1986 (Gboko)
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
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX AXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011100 111 1111 11110 10101 11101 11 10111 1010 11010 1010001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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A Simple thought of the company humans enjoy with pets like dogs
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