Analysis of Sneezles
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
Christopher Robin
Had wheezles
And sneezles,
They bundled him
Into
His bed.
They gave him what goes
With a cold in the nose,
And some more for a cold
In the head.
They wondered
If wheezles
Could turn
Into measles,
If sneezles
Would turn
Into mumps;
The examined his chest
For a rash,
and the rest
Of his body for swellings and lumps.
They sent for some doctors
In sneezles
And wheezles
To tell them what ought
To be done.
All sorts of conditions
Of famous physicians
Came hurrying round
At a run.
They all made a note
Of the state of his throat,
They asked if he suffered from thirst;
They asked if the sneezles
Came after the wheezles,
Or if the first sneezle
Came first.
They said, “If you teazle
A sneezle
Or wheezle,
A measle
May easily grow.
But humour or pleazle
The wheezle
Or sneezle,
The measle
Will certainly go.”
They expounded the reazles
For sneezles
And wheezles,
The manner of measles
When new.
They said, “If he freezles
In draughts and in breezles,
Then PHTHEEZLES
May even ensue.”
Christopher Robin
Got up in the morning,
The sneezles had vanished away.
And the look in his eye
Seemed to say to the sky,
“Now, how to amuse them today?”
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Metre | 10010 11 01 1101 01 11 11111 101001 011101 001 110 11 11 0110 11 11 011 001011 101 001 11101101 111110 01 01 11111 111 111010 110010 11001 101 11101 101111 11111011 11101 11001 11011 11 11111 01 11 01 11001 1111 01 11 01 11001 101001 11 01 010110 11 11111 01001 11 11001 10010 110010 0111001 001011 111101 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,388 |
Words | 218 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 26, 30, 6 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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