Analysis of Up and down
Back and forth I climb the mountain
Up and down I go just like a fountain
I sweat in toil
I grind and moil
Back and forth I ascend the mountain
Scheme | AABBA |
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Poetic Form | Limerick |
Metre | 10111010 1011111010 1101 1101 101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 143 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
This poem is about doing the same thing over and over again without getting bored or giving up.
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