Analysis of Light Sleeper
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
My wife is such a light sleeper
That when I come home late
After a night out with the boys
I always remove my shoes
And leave them at the bottom
Of the street.
Image my surprise, when
On retrieving them this morning
I discovered that they had been
Polished.
What a nice neighbourhood I live in.
What a great country this is.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110110 111111 10011101 110111 0111010 101 101011 10101110 10101111 10 1011110 1011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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