Analysis of Best Friends
Jill Johnson 1961 (Pocatello, Idaho)
Hippo and the Dodo were two peas in a pod
They were best friends, though it seemed rather odd
They loved the same music, and movies, and food
They loved their parents and showed gratitude
Though hippo was large and Dodo quite small
It didn’t seem to bother them any at all
Hippo would carry Dodo on his large flat head
And Dodo would sing to Hippo in bed
Oh, what a friendship, oh, what a treat
People would cheer when they walked down the street
Though few understood it, even fewer complained
For theirs was a friendship that one could
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE XX |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 100010011001 1011111101 11011001001 111100110 1101101011 11111011011 101101011111 0101111001 110101101 1011111101 11011101001 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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