Analysis of Popcorn and Porcupines
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
Perhaps it’s to exercise jaws
But a naughty porcupine gnaws
On handles of wood,
So salty and good,
But they’d prefer popcorn to saws.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 0111101 1010101 11011 11001 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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