Analysis of Five Little Toes At Night
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
This little toe is tired,
This little toe needs rocking,
This little toe is sleepy you know,
But this little toe keeps talking,
This toe big and tall is the mischief of all,
For he made a great hole in his stocking.
| Scheme | ABCBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 1101110 110111011 11101110 11101101011 1110110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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