Analysis of In The Fashion
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
A lion has a tail and a very fine tail
And so has an elephant and so has a whale,
And so has a crocodile, and so has a quail-
They’ve all got tails but me.
If I had sixpence I would buy one;
I’d say to the shopman, ‘Let me try one’;
I’d say to the elephant, ‘This is my one.’
They’d all come round to see.
Then I’d say to the lion, ‘Why, you’ve got a tail!
And so has the elephant, and so has the whale!
And, look! There’s a crocodile! He’s got a
tail !
You’ve all got tails like me!’
Scheme | AAAB CCCB AAXAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101001011 011110001101 01101001101 111111 11111111 111011111 11101001111 111111 111101011101 011010001101 011010110 1 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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