Analysis of The dog ate my Poem



And it made her sick.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 21
Words 5
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 16
Words per stanza (avg) 5

About this poem

True story about children and the consequences of divorce. My first 6 years of life were as perfect as any middle-class, 50's era life could be for a child. The break-up of my parents rattled my world, and made me start wondering if God was real

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Written on November 12, 2023

Submitted by lovingempath on November 12, 2023

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Robin Loving

Sometimes the words flow like a murder of crows. They've held my secrets for the past 65-years. And sometimes they repeat them back to me, and laugh. more…

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