Analysis of My Uncle



I have an uncle,
Whose name is Pumblechook.
He is a huge-huge fat man,
with a mouth like a fish.
But he is really a bric a Brac,
And he is a real fool.
As he never does any work,
So he eats and eats a lot of food,
And he wears a cap like a little ridding hood's.

When he goes in his bower,
he sits reclined under a grove.
for he has time to stand and stare,
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

On the way if he meets me,
He always shakes hands with me.
It seems he feels a thrill of pleasure,
But I grieve at this.
For from his hand comes a smell of -
Trout and a pot pie,
I get irritated at this,
And always remain far from him.


Scheme XAXXAXAXB CXXB DDCBXXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1111 1101111 101101 111100101 011011 11101101 111010111 011011010101 1110110 11011001 11111101 01111111 1011111 111111 111101110 11111 11111011 10011 1110011 0101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 609
Words 138
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 4, 8
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on September 06, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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