Analysis of What the Rattlesnake Said
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The moon's a little prairie-dog.
He shivers through the night.
He sits upon his hill and cries
For fear that I will bite.
The sun's a broncho. He's afraid
Like every other thing,
And trembles, morning, noon and night,
Lest I should spring, and sting.
| Scheme | XAXA XBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010101 110101 11011101 111111 0101101 1100101 0110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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