Analysis of TOO MANY BOYS
Dr. T. Pinnock 1962 (Hartford, Ct)
Too many boys, every Christmas, get too many toys!!!!!!
Josh and Ted, they sleep in the same bed.
Ted turns red.
Huby and Pat, they fight on the mat.
Don and Ray, they are O.K.
James and Jack, they got a whack!!!
They are all a pair,
So there .............
One’s a nut,
Josh got cut.
Are mother and father always hollering because .....
We all are???
But they miss,
The two little ones are nine and ten.
The middle ones are fourteen and fourteen.
They are clean.
Fifteen and sixteen, they are strong and long.
Twenty and twenty-two, they say go to bed.
One has a friend names Pete.
Ain’t that sweet?
I have a friend names Rich,
He’s an itch.
Now I have to take a bow.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
Scheme | XAAXXXBB CCXXXXDDXAEE FFX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001011101 101110011 111 10111101 1011111 1011101 11101 11 101 111 110010110001 111 111 011011101 0101111011 111 0100111101 10010111111 110111 111 110111 111 1111101 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted by dr_pinnock on July 08, 2021
Modified by dr_pinnock on July 08, 2021
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