Analysis of A New York Child's Garden of Verses
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
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In winter I get up at night,
And dress by an electric light.
In summer, autumn, ay, and spring,
I have to do the self-same thing.
I have to go to bed and hear
Pianos pounding in my ear,
And hear the janitor cavort
With garbage cans within the court.
And does it not seem hard to you
That I should have these things to do?
Is it not hard for us Manhat-
Tan children in a stuffy flat?
It is very nice to think
The world is full of food and drink;
But, oh, my father says to me
They cost all of his salaree.
When I am grown to man's estate
I shall be very proud and great;
E'en now I have no reverence,
'Cause I read comic supplements.
New York is so full of a number of kids
I'm sure pretty soon we shall be invalids.
A child should always say what's true,
And speak when he is spoken to;
And then, when manhood's age he strikes,
He may be boorish as he likes.
Scheme | XX AABB CCDD EEAX FFXC GGXX XX EEHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100 1 01011111 01110101 01010101 11110111 11111101 01010011 01010001 11010101 01111111 11111111 1111111 11000101 1110111 01111101 11110111 111111 11111101 11110101 111111100 11110100 11111101011 11101111100 0111111 01111101 0111111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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