Analysis of Manners

Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)



Good manners help to pave the way
To help produce a happy day.
Without good manners we would not
Have any of the friends we've got.

Please try to find how to be kind.
Pray in God's name, they do the same.


Scheme AABB XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 11010101 01110111 11010111 11111111 10111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 205
Words 46
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 2
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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