Analysis of Three Jokes
Smaller the country,
the longer the speech.
There isn’t a good joke I haven’t stolen. (Milton Berle)
Lawyers. Got the witnesses. Pound the witnesses.
Got the facts. Pound the facts. And when you don’t have anything, you pound the table. (Sonny Elliott)
| Scheme | XX X XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 10010 01001 110111110101 101010010100 10110101111101101010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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