Analysis of Bark
Your dog almost bit me
the first time we met
and today as I sat
on your couch and you came
up the walk
he barked at you
until I told him it was you,
until he heard your voice,
and he finally recognized you.
Maybe you’re the one who’s changed.
| Scheme | ABCDEFFGFH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11111 01111 001111 111011 101 1111 01111111 011111 01100101 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 246 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
This poem is about being with a partner for a long time, and feeling as though the partner had changed. Surely, we had both changed, but this is a moment that stuck out to me. This partner's dog actually barked at them as they came in, while I was dog-sitting. The moment has stuck with me for some reason.
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