Analysis of High Jinks
wetness washes from the eyes
off the child’s face
a tear
rolls twinkling
along a waggish slope
curling between the cheek and nose
pickling in a sweet lips dance
a sort of cycle shed spreads
and framed in high jinks
coos a pink tongue
liveliness splashes and jumps
over from the wetted mouth
disordered are both hands
even the feet turn around
enfeebled to the toes
the child then rolls
intensely contented
stretched out on the ground
Scheme | XXX XXAX XXX XXXB AXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1011 01 1100 01011 10010101 1000111 0111011 01011 1011 1001001 101011 010111 1001101 010101 0111 010010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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