Analysis of So much for santa claus
I’ve fallen out with Santa Claus
I think he’s gone on strike
My stocking’s hanging on the bed
But I can’t find the bike.
I wrote to him some weeks ago
Explaining that I need
A Raleigh with dropped handlebars
Fitted with three speed.
There’s an orange in my stocking
Which, these days, is a treat
But it’s not a lot of blinking use
For riding down the street.
So I’m not too pleased with Santa
I think that he’s a moron
‘Cos strikes are now illegal
Does he know that there’s a war on ?
Alan Parry Booth.......... Wednesday December 25th 1940
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 111111 11010101 111101 11111101 010111 0101110 10111 11100110 111101 111011101 110101 11111110 111101 1111010 11111011 101011001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on December 24, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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