Analysis of Snail



I'm a snail on the garden wall,
but i wish i wasn't one at all.

I wish i was a bird up high,
soaring through,
the big blue sky.

A lizard i would like to be,
baking on a rock,
i think i'm getting burnt i'd better get my sunblock.

Or mabey i could be a roo,
bouncing up and down,
i'd be a very bouncy fella,
never have a frown.

But for now i'm just a little snail,
nothing much at all,
i'm not big, i'm not fat, i'm not even tall.

I'm as boring, as boring, as boring can be,
a boring little snail is deifently me!!


Scheme AA BCB DEE CFXF XAA DD
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 111110111 11110111 101 0111 01011111 10101 111101110111 11011101 10101 110101010 10101 111110101 10111 11111111101 111011011011 010101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 496
Words 109
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on October 21, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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