Analysis of I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
I'd Rather Have Habits Than Clothes,
For that's where my intellect shows.
And as for my hair,
Do you think I should care
To comb it at night with my toes?
I'd rather have ears than a nose,
I'd rather have fingers than toes,
But as for my hair:
I'm glad it's all there;
I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
I wish that my Room had a Floor;
I don't so much care for a Door,
But this walking around
Without touching the ground
Is getting to be quite a bore!
Scheme | XABBA AABBA CCDDC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (47%) |
Metre | 11011011 1111101 01111 111111 11111111 11011101 11011011 11111 11111 11101111 11111101 11111101 111001 011001 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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