Analysis of Upstairs Racers
All the noise from upstairs is outrageous!
They should lock up their children in cages!
But it isn’t the children I blame.
It’s their parents who made this a game!
They run all day long !
They’re like Gold Medal strong!
Every day’s like a day at the races!
| Scheme | ABCCDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011011010 1111110010 11101011 111011101 11111 111101 10011011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
It’s about my upstairs neighbor and all the children she babysits and how I felt living beneath them!
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Written on September 16, 2008
Submitted by Jodilinns on May 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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