"Killing a Mosquito"

by Peter Porter
I slap the mozzie on my hand,
the blood is mine, the black its all,
that this one second might befall;
it can't, but I can understand
the rule - in whose court is the ball?
What said of it that I should kill it
since late or soon I'd have to scratch?
No password, sesame or millet,
urged: lift the multi-treasured latch.
As well defrost a piece of fillet
and brave a blood this blood to match.

When Francis Bacon wrote that men

fear death as children fear to go
into the dark, he dipped his pen
in blood as light as ink; he'd show
the fretful soul that what might happen
was quaint as killing a mosquito.

The poem has line because it contains a group of words arranged

into a row. Rhyme and rhyme scheme because the lines are arranged as
ABBA and ABAB, also most of the end of the lines had a rhyming partner.
Rhythm and Meter, specifically syllabic meter because the number of
syllables is either 8 or 9.