Analysis of Goodbat Nightman
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
God bless all policemen
and fighters of crime,
May thieves go to jail
for a very long time.
They've had a hard day
helping clean up the town,
Now they hang from the mantelpiece
both upside down.
A glass of warm blood
and then straight up the stairs,
Batman and Robin
are saying their prayers.
* * *
They've locked all the doors
and they've put out the bat,
Put on their batjamas
(They like doing that)
They've filled their batwater-bottles
made their batbeds,
With two springy battresses
for sleepy batheads.
They're closing red eyes
and they're counting black sheep,
Batman and Robin
are falling asleep.
Scheme | xaxa xbcb xcDc cece cccc cfDf |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 111010 01011 11111 101011 11011 101101 111101 1111 01111 011101 1010 11011 1 11101 011101 1111 11101 111110 111 1111 1101 11011 011011 1010 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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