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
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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