Analysis of Politeness
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
If people ask me,
I always tell them:
"Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say."
If people ask me,
I always answer,
"Quite well, thank you, how are you to-day?"
I always answer,
I always tell them,
If they ask me
Politely.....
BUT SOMETIMES
That they wouldn't.
| Scheme | ABcADcDBaax x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1111 1111110111 11011 1110 111111111 1110 1111 1111 010 101 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 267 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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