Analysis of A Caution to Everybody
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01001 010010110111101101 01011110101 01101111011110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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