Analysis of Sneezles



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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Poetic Form
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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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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