Analysis of The Goops
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
The meanest trick I ever knew
Was one I know you never do.
I saw a Goop once try to do it,
And there was nothing funny to it.
He pulled a chair from under me
As I was sitting down; but he
Was sent to bed, and rightly, too.
It was a horrid thing to do!
| Scheme | AABBCCAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 11111101 110111111 011101011 11011101 11110111 11110101 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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