Analysis of Snails



The snail ain't slow
And it sure ain't fast
It doesn't need any gas
It carries it's house
It shares it's meals with a mouse.

The snail ain't cute
It share a root
It shares it's dinner with a mole
But to me, he's a winner!


Scheme XXXAA BBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 01111 1101101 11011 1111101 0111 1101 11110101 1111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 215
Words 46
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 4
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on April 16, 2018

Modified on March 10, 2023

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