Analysis of Lines and Squares



Whenever I walk in a London street,
I'm ever so careful to watch my feet;
And I keep in the squares,
And the masses of bears,
Who wait at the corners all ready to eat
The sillies who tread on the lines of the street
Go back to their lairs,
And I say to them, "Bears,
Just look how I'm walking in all the squares!"

And the little bears growl to each other, "He's mine,
As soon as he's silly and steps on a line."
And some of the bigger bears try to pretend
That they came round the corner to look for a friend;
And they try to pretend that nobody cares
Whether you walk on the lines or squares.
But only the sillies believe their talk;
It's ever so portant how you walk.
And it's ever so jolly to call out, "Bears,
Just watch me walking in all the squares!"


Scheme AABBAABBB CCDDBBEEBB
Poetic Form
Metre 0101100101 1101101111 011001 001011 11101011011 0111101101 11111 011111 1111100101 001011111011 11111001101 01101011101 111101011101 011101111 101110111 110010111 11011111 01101101111 111100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 746
Words 157
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 10
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 288
Words per stanza (avg) 76
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. more…

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