Analysis of Table Manners
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
THE Goops they lick their fingers,
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the tablecloth-
Oh, they lead disgusting lives!
The Goops they talk while eating,
And loud and fast they chew;
And that is why I'm glad that I
Am not a Goop-are you?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111110 0011111 11111010 1110101 0111110 010111 01111111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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