Analysis of Wishy-washy



They are rinky-dinky,
the sad booboisies.
They are slinky-kinky,
the weird escapees.

They are smoggy-foggy,
the odd bizarrerie.
They are soggy-boggy,
the dank inductees.

They are dingy-stingy,
the old debauchees.
They are fringy-mingy,
the mean attendees.

They are goofy-spooky,
the new bourgeoisies.
They are spoofy-fluky,
the mad franchisees.

They are scabby-crabby,
the vile coteries.
They are shabby-flabby,
the fat arrestees.

They are wishy-washy,
the weak bonhomies.
They are squishy-squashy,
the faint devotees.


Scheme ABAB AXAB ABXB ABAB ABAB ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 11110 011 111010 0101 111010 011 11101 01011 111010 011 1111 01011 111010 011 1111 0101 11110 011 111010 011 111010 011 111010 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 495
Words 72
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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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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