Analysis of You can’t have one without the other
Boys play in dirt, and make messes
Girls play with dolls, and wear dresses.
Boys play sports, while girls cheer.
Girls drink wine, while boys drink beer.
Boys shoot guns, girls shoot bows.
Who kills the deer, only the deer knows.
Girls love pink, boys love camo.
Girls watch romance, boys watch Rambo.
Girls bathe, boys shower.
It takes girls more than an hour.
If either one didn’t exist there’d be no population,
no city, no town, nor even a nation.
Although they are different, they need one another;
you simply can’t have one without the other.
| Scheme | XX AA XX BB CC DD CC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11010110 11110110 111111 1111111 111111 110110011 111111 11011110 11110 11111110 1101101111010 11011110010 111100111010 11011101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 561 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
To some this maybe considered a stereotype, but the last two stanzas are 100 precent truth. Only a man and woman can produce a baby.
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