Analysis of Only A Tiger (Nursery Rhyme #48)
Only a Tiger will approach a Tiger,
Lions never do
To give him pause and make him think,
“What will this Tiger do”
All other beasts he rests cocksure,
a meal they will become
But faced with one of his own kind
—to stay or then to run
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
‘For Kiley, Hunter, Braden & Parker’
| Scheme | AB XB AX XX XA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10010101010 10101 11110111 111101 1101111 011101 11111111 111111 0100101 110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 02, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 02, 2020
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