Analysis of Pills And Dills



There are pills for countless ills
and ease for grim diseases
There are pills for wintry chills
and ease for raspy sneezes

There are hills for dogged wills
and lees for object freezes
There are hills for winding rills
and lees for gentle breezes

There are bills for rubbish fills
and keys for city squeezes
There are bills for tanker spills
and keys for aqua tweezes

There are skills for many thrills
and tease for nasty geezers
There are skills for stylish frills
and tease for lusty pleasers

There are tills for byway kills
and teas for meaty seizes
There are tills for Jewish dills
and teas for tasty cheeses


Scheme AXAB ABAB ABAA AAAA ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 1111101 0111010 1111101 0111010 111111 0111010 1111101 0111010 1111101 0111010 1111101 011101 1111101 011101 1111101 011101 111111 0111010 1111101 0111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 592
Words 110
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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