Analysis of Tellin' Tails
Bonnie Hardee Kotchick 1964 (Lakeland, Florida)
As Sparkle Lynn played at the playground one day, she heard two girls talking g, Crystal Claire and Jessie Mae.
The tale they were telling, she thought was quite tall, so you know what she did? She told her friend Paul!
Paul thought to himself, 'Boy this story is juicey! I know who would love this, my good friend Lucy.'
Now Lucy's no stranger to gossip, that's true.
As she listened to Paul, she knew just what she'd do.
She'd text a few friends, really get something going, not stopping to think of the seed she was sowing.
You see, this tale in the tellin', just grew and grew and every teller tellin' told something new!
Before you know it, what Sparkle Lynn heard, was totally changed, right down to the last word.
The moral to this story is as plain as the nose on my face.
The tellin' of tales, it has its own place.
Between the covers of a book on a shelf, or by a good fire where marsh mellows melt.
Not told behind the back of a friend.
Tales told in this fashion never come to a good end!
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Metre | 110111011111111011010101 0110101111111111111011 1110111101111111111110 1111011011 111011111111 110111011010110111011110 1111001110101001011101 011111101111001111011 0101110111101111 011111111 010101011011101101111 110101101 1101101011011 |
Characters | 1,008 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 59 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 767 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
About this poem
This is the first in a line of poems for children that are morals based. My hope is to show children how others should be treated, or not treated in some cases.
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Written on May 30, 2005
Submitted by beeme!apsd on September 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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