Analysis of Have A Nice day
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.'
'Hang on, ' said a man from the shore.
'Help, help, ' said the man. 'I'm not clowning.'
'Yes, I know, I heard you before.
Be patient dear man who is drowning,
You, see I've got a disease.
I'm waiting for a Doctor J. Browning.
So do be patient please.'
'How long, ' said the man who was drowning. 'Will it take for the Doc to arrive? '
'Not very long, ' said the man with the disease. 'Till then try staying alive.'
'Very well, ' said the man who was drowning. 'I'll try and stay afloat.
By reciting the poems of Browning
And other things he wrote.'
'Help, help, ' said the man with the disease, 'I suddenly feel quite ill.'
'Keep calm.' said the man who was drowning, ' Breathe deeply and lie quite still.'
'Oh dear, ' said the man with the awful disease. 'I think I'm going to die.'
'Farewell, ' said the man who was drowning.
Said the man with the disease, 'goodbye.'
So the man who was drowning, drownded
And the man with the disease past away.
But apart from that,
And a fire in my flat,
It's been a very nice day.
Scheme | ABABACACDDEAEFFGAGEHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 11101101 111011110 11111101 110111110 1111001 1101010110 111101 111011110111101101 110110110011111001 1011011110110101 1010010110 010111 1110110011100111 1110111101100111 111011010011111011 11011110 10110011 10111101 0011001101 10111 0010011 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,061 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 760 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 207 |
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