Analysis of Standing Room Only
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
This population explosion
Said Peter to St. Paul
Is really getting far too much
Just look at the crowd in the hall.
Even here, in Heaven
There isn't any room
I think the world could do with less
Much less fruit in the womb.
Thus Heaven is overcrowded
The numbers are starting to tell
So when the next lot knock at the gates
Tell 'em to 'Go to Hell'.
| Scheme | ABCBADEDFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010010 110111 11010111 11101001 101010 110101 11011111 111001 1101100 01011011 110111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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