Analysis of Night Janitors
All day long in bushes
Baby rabbit slept.
But with darkness coming
Little female lept.
Subdivision pavements
Room to jump and run.
Brother showed her play-time
Exercise and fun.
But a teenage driver
Home from party wild
Didn’t see the rabbit
Blasting Fate’s sad child.
Now the playing ended
Now the beating stopped
Flattened and dismembered.
One who laughed and hopped.
Morning sun brings
Two crows.
Breakfast found; no cost.
Bunny now in past tense.
All her sporting lost.
Lamenting of a mourning Dove
Dirge is played on High
Finches found just singing
Hardly have to try.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDXD XEXE XXXXX XFBF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
Metre | 111010 10101 111010 1011 10010 11101 101011 1001 10110 11101 11010 10111 101010 10101 100010 11101 1011 11 10111 101011 10101 01010101 11111 101110 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Written on May 13, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on May 13, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on May 13, 2023
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