Analysis of The Lazy Roof
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
The Roof it has a Lazy Time
A-Lying in the Sun;
The Walls, they have to Hold Him Up;
They do Not Have Much Fu
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 010001 01111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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