Analysis of Would You Believe It?
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
One year ago I wished that I
A banker great might be
With a hundred million dollars
And financial majesty;
A mighty Wall Street banker
With a whopping lot of power
And an income of somewhere around
A thousand plunks per hour;
A solid Wall Street banker
With securities in sacks
And with clever men to show me
How to pay no income tax;
A wealthy Wall Street banker
Who raked in cash like hay;
I wished that just a year ago—
And I wish the same today.
| Scheme | XAXA BBXB BCAC BDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11011111 010111 10101010 0010100 0101110 10101110 0111101 0101110 0101110 1010001 01101111 111111 0101110 110111 11110101 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 444 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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