Analysis of twas the day after christmas...by mary trumble:)...copyright 2010

Mary Trumble 1965 (San Mateo .CA)



twas the day after christmas
and all through my rental
not a creature could move
not even the psycho-cat...mental

all the stockings had been emptied
every last treat had been eaten
the next person who offers me a cookie
is gonna get beaten

i pried open my eyes
to survey my humble abode
what i saw was the cat
looking ready to explode

he was licking his chops
he looked so darned perky
i started to laugh
then thought...oh god...the turkey

i ran for the kitchen
as fast as i could crawl
he'd eaten every last piece
he'd eaten it all

i saw the trail of bones
that led straight for my bed
as visions of huge vet bills
swam through my head

i plopped down in my chair
and thought oh this is it
he's off to the shelter
and it won't bother me one bit

but as i sat there and remembered
all the good times we'd had
i knew i couldn't do it
and said he's not so bad

though he's poked holes in my screens
and ruined my italian leather couch
i still can't help but love
the hairy ol' grouch

so i say this to all
who are owned by cats just like mine
dogs might be cool
but cats are divine


Scheme XAXA XBCB XDXD XCXC BEXE XFXF XGXG XHGH XIXI EJXJ
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011010 011110 101011 1100101 10101110 100111110 01101101010 110110 111011 10111001 111101 1010101 111011 111110 11011 11110 111010 111111 11010011 11011 110111 111111 1101111 1111 111011 011111 111010 01110111 111110010 101111 1111011 011111 1111011 0101010101 111111 01011 111111 11111111 1111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,084
Words 229
Sentences 4
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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for anyone who's owned by cats just like this :)

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Written on 2010

Submitted by liloneinneed on August 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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