Analysis of Five Little Toes In The Morning
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
This little toe is hungry-
This little toe is too,
This toe lies abed like a sleepy head,
And this toe cries 'Boo-hoo.'
This toe big and tall is the smartest of all
For he pops into stocking and shoe.
| Scheme | ABCBDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 110111 1110110101 011111 11101101011 111011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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