Analysis of Big Fat Man



twinkle, twinkle, big fat man,
eat the food and not the can,

lets go eat 100 grand,
then go kick a poor old man.

by kerr adams


Scheme AA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1010111 1010101 1111 1110111 1110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 123
Words 27
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on November 14, 2009

Modified on May 03, 2023

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