Analysis of Discipline
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner 1885 (Niles, Michigan) – 1933 (East Hampton, New York)
He couldn't have a doughnut, and it made him very mad;
He undertook to get revenge by screaming at his dad.
"Cut out that noise!" I ordered, and he gave another roar,
And so I put him in "the room" and shut and locked the door.
I left him in his prison cell two minutes, just about,
And, penitent, he smiled at me when I did let him out.
But when he got another look at the forbidden fruit
He gave a yell that they could hear in Jacksonville or Butte.
"Cut out that noise!" I barked again. "Cut out that foghorn stuff!
Perhaps I didn't leave you in your prison long enough.
"You want your dad to keep you jailed all afternoon, I guess."
He smiled at me and answered his equivalent for "yes."
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101010111101 1011101110111 11111100110101 01111001010101 11101101110101 01001111111111 11110101101001 1101111101011 1111110111111 01110110110101 1111111110111 11110101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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