Analysis of Growing Up
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail,
For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail;
And his mother didn't know him as he wept upon a log,
For he wasn't Tommy Tadpole, but Mr. Thomas Frog.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011101 110101111101 011010111110101 1110101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 208 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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