Analysis of Grandpa Is Ashamed
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
A child need not be very clever
To learn that "Later, dear" means "Never."
Scheme | AA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 011111010 111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 93 |
Words | 17 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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