Analysis of Can a Parrot
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
Can a parrot
Eat a carrot
Standing on his head?
If I did that my mum would send me
Straight upstairs to bed.
| Scheme | AABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (60%) Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1010 1010 10111 111111111 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 105 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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