Analysis of Eletelephony
Laura Elizabeth Richards 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1943 (Gardiner, Maine)
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)
Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I'd better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 111101 111111 1111010 11111101 11011111 10111111 010001 01111111 010101 11110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 378 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 282 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
About this poem
Written in 1930, Eletelephony is arguably the best known of Laura Elizabeth Richards' poems.
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Written on 1930
Submitted by Greying_Geezer on December 13, 2021
Modified on May 02, 2023
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