Analysis of The Chicken & The Armadiller
Daniel E. Mayon 1948 (Galena Park, Texas)
Days cycle the many nights,
The Sun comes up, always bright.
"Greetings boys, how do yawl do?"
"Yesterday, when I was young,
Was as happy as a half dead chicken
In a fifty-five gallon worm bucket drum.
Now, I feel as bad as a dead armadiller
Changing lanes!
Thanks for asking, friend.
Have a good day."
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1100101 011111 1011111 101111 1110101110 00101101101 111111011 101 11101 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 302 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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