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
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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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. more…

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