Analysis of The Squirrel poem



He wore a question mark for tail An overcoat of gray He sat up straight to eat a nut He liked to tease and play And if we ran around his tree He went the other way.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111110111111110111110101110111110101
Characters 164
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 127
Words per line (avg) 37
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 37

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Written on January 01, 1967

Submitted by siddharthdinesh4 on July 28, 2021

Modified on May 03, 2023

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