Analysis of Lie, Lay, Lain
Don't your find it a pain
to lie where you lay
or lay where you lie
like a golf ball lost in the rain?
It's lain where it lay for many a day
is fully a mouthful to say.
I fear I'll never pin it
Do I play from my lay?
Or try from my lie?
Or hunker in the bunker
repeating,
Now I lie-lay,
me down to rest
this annoying anapest
and leave it where it
reclines.
Scheme | ABCABBDBCEFBGDDH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 11111 11111 10111001 1111111001 1100111 1111011 111111 11111 1100010 010 1111 1111 10101 01111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 341 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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