Analysis of Ode to Coco

Debbie Ebersole 1968 (Pennsylvania)

Ode


Ode to Coco

Once when I was young,
We got a little pup.
She showed us all her love.
We vowed never to give her up.

She was the family protector,
The guardian of our lives.
Noone who came through the door,
Could escape her watching eyes.

Ever present and always there
To protect her family's home.
And she was always by your side
With never a notion to roam.

Well many years have passed since then
And her body has grown old
But she still does her very best
Not to let it show.

And when the time arrives
That she will go away,
For all of those who knew her
It will be a sad, sad day

But I know deep within my heart
That she'll never really leave
She'll be watching over all of us
And that's what I believe


Scheme A XBXB CDXX XEXE XXXA DFCF XGXG
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11111 110101 111101 11101101 110100010 01001101 111101 1010101 1010011 10101001 0111111 11001011 11011111 0010111 11110101 11111 010101 111101 1111110 1110111 11110111 1110101 111010111 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 711
Words 161
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

This poem is about a dog I had when I was young. I still miss her to this day.

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Written on 1983

Submitted on July 31, 2024

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