Analysis of Tortoise Toe Jam

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)



A tortoise, as every one knows,
Takes his home with him where ere he goes.
And he's terribly strong and can take you along
But you have to watch out for your toes.

You are not going any where quickly
The view is not anything high,
You might find your ride is just hidden inside,
Its shell, but you give it a try.

A nudge with the toe of your sandal
To the back foot, just under the rim,
Should do the trick, but you have to be quick,
And not get pinched as legs are drawn in.

The thing about children and sandals,
Is they wear them until toes are bunched,
It's with razor to go, that, you cut off the toe-cap
So on tortoise rides toes might get crunched.

You can see images of my sister riding a tortoise here: http://abitingchance.blogspot.com/search?q=Tortoise


Scheme AAXA XBXB XXXX XCXC X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110011 111111111 011001011101 111111111 1111010110 0111101 11111111001 11111101 011011110 101111001 1101111111 011111110 010110010 111101111 1110111111011 111011111 111100111010010111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 763
Words 149
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on July 10, 2014

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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