Analysis of Gomer and Carter
Gomer Pyle
loves to smile
when he does his chores.
He makes his bed, he shines his shoes, he even sweeps the floors.
Sargent Carter
doing his charter
is praying for the day
when private Gomer becomes a roamer, and stays the heck away.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101 111 11111 11111111110101 1010 10110 110101 110100101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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