Analysis of U and I
Pauline Frances Bishop Camp 1863 (Boston, MA) – 1939 (Springfield, MO)
All the letters of the alphabet
The righteous way should choose,
But two of them, especially,
Should mind their P's and Q's;
A deal of trouble in this world,
And much that goes awry,
Could be prevented easily
By these two, U and I.
If U and I are cross, you see
There's bound to be a fuss;
If U and I untidy are,
Somewhere there'll be a muss.
If U and I are selfish, there
Will some one suffer wrong;
If U and I rob birds' nests, why,
The world will lose a song.
If some one feels dejected, or
'Tis cloudy for a while,
The sunshine may come back again
If U or I but smile.
If U should grumble, whine, or pout,
Or I should snarl and fret,
A storm would soon be raging that
We should not soon forget!
So U, look out, and mind your ways!
As I must likewise do,
And keep a cheery corner where
The skies are always blue.
The A's and B's and E's and O's
Do work that's good and great,
But U and I can do the most
To keep this old world straight.
Scheme | ABCBXDCD CXXBEFDF XGXGXAXA XHEHXIXI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 010111 1111010 111101 01110011 011101 11010100 111101 11011111 111101 11010101 110101 11011101 111101 11011111 011101 11110101 110101 0111101 111111 11110111 111101 01111101 111101 11110111 11111 01010101 01111 01010101 111101 11011101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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