Analysis of The Wiggly Things

Darcel Williams 1952 (New Jersey)



I was lying down the other day,
Doing my usual spit and play.
All of a sudden my eyes looked down,
I saw these wiggly things, they didn't make a sound.
The more excited I got the more they moved,
I thought "what are these things, are they something new"
I don't remember seeing them before,
Maybe something mom and Dad got from the store.
They probably forgot to put them up,
But it seems to me that they are stuck.
Should I laugh or should I cry?
They don't seem to hurt,
I'll give them a try.
I'll touch one maybe they'll go away,
Hey that tickles, should I let them stay?
I'll give them a day to see how they act.
Hey this is fun! I won't give them back!
I'll make a fuss and make them see,
Finders keepers, the wiggly things belong to me!


Scheme AABCDEFFGHIJIAAKLMM
Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 101100101 110101111 1111001110101 01010110111 11111111101 1101010101 10101011101 1100011111 111111111 1111111 11111 11101 111101101 111011111 1110111111 111111111 11010111 1010010010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 742
Words 165
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 561
Words per stanza (avg) 148

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About babies discovering their toes

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Written on July 27, 2022

Submitted by dwilliams114 on July 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Darcel Williams

70 year old mother of 7 grandmother of 15 great grandmother of 5 author of Grannytales by Darcel Williams on Amazon more…

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