Analysis of "Litterbug"
Litterbug, litterbug,
shame on you,
you throw your garbage everywhere,
not caring what you do.
You pitch it out of your windows
and dump it out of your truck,
trying to save a few pennies
or maybe even a buck.
Anyone who follows you,
can see there is a trail,
finding this and finding that
and sometimes finding your mail.
You take a beautiful place
and you ruin it for our eyes,
it's like taking the morning sun
so it never again will rise.
For every piece of litter,
that lies upon the earth,
takes away its beauty
and the value that its worth.
So litterbug,litterbug,
learn your lesson well,
because if we see you littering,
to someone....we will tell !
| Scheme | ABXB XAXA BCXC XDXD XEXE AFAF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11 111 1111010 110111 11111110 0111111 10110110 1101001 101101 111101 1010101 0011011 1101001 011011101 11100101 11100111 11001110 110101 101110 0010111 11 11101 011111100 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 122 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on August 14, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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