Analysis of How can we Fool the Rooster?
Written when the clock was set ahead one hour on April 1, 1918.
Our Rooster wakes at half-past five
And crows with all his might,
He tries to wake the people up
Before the day is light.
When Daddy hears the rooster crow
He knows he should awake
And light the kitchen fire, so Ma
Can cook the Johnny cake.
Now, maybe we can fool my Dad
That it's half-past five when it's half-past four,
And maybe the system's the best we have had
To fool some thousands of people or more;
But, how can we fool that rooster?
I have always thought our rooster had
A clock inside of his head,
And I don't know how we can fix it so
We can set the clock ahead.
I asked my Dad, and he said to me,
"Why, son, you surely know
A rooster's instinct wakens him
And tells him when to crow."
Now the hands of the clock we can turn ahead,
We can fool the people and feel content;
But the thing that worries me night and day,
And on which my entire thought is bent
Is, how can we fool that rooster?
Scheme | X XAXABCXC DEDEF DGBGXBXB GHXHF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011101110110 101011111 011111 11110101 010111 11010101 111101 010101011 110101 11011111 1111111111 01001001111 1111011011 11111110 111110101 0101111 0111111111 1110101 111101111 111101 011011 011111 10110111101 1110100110 1011101101 0111010111 11111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 955 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 5, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 25, 2023
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