Analysis of My Feet
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
My Feet they haul me Round the House,
They Hoist me up the Stairs;
I only have to Steer them, and
They Ride me Everywheres!
Scheme | ABCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 111101 11011110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 132 |
Words | 27 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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