Analysis of A Pun From The Deep.
Edwin C Ranck 1879
A funny thing once happened to a German from Berlin,
For once he got too gay and seized a swordfish by the fin,
This made the big fish angry, and he sawed the German's chin.
"Just Tell Them That I Saw You" said the swordfish with a grin.
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 01011101010101 1111110101101 11011100110101 1111111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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