Analysis of Uncle Dan's Will
Uncle Dan wrote out his will,
All legal-like and proper.
He knew he'd not much time to kill
Before he'd come a cropper.
He'd truly lived a merry life
And led us all a dance.
He never took himself a wife,
But loved a good romance.
A ladies' man he'd always been,
And when the will was read,
Several ladies graced the scene
To hear just what was said.
All those ladies came away
With trifling bits and pieces,
But old Dan's fortune on that day
Went to his favourite nieces!
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FXFX F |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 1101010 11111111 0111010 11010101 011101 11010101 110101 0101111 010111 1010101 111111 1110101 1101010 11110111 111110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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