Analysis of Silly Billy, Silly Me



My little Billy was so silly
On one October day.
He climbed a tree so he could see
An object far away.

I asked him why the big blue sky
Was interesting to
His little eyes; to my surprise
He said that he could view

A tall giraffe and so I laughed.
But he would only smile.
And so I tried to see if I'd
Missed it and in awhile

As I rechecked the sky a neck
Appeared in a tall cloud,
When I began a youthful scan;
Pretending dreams endowed.


Scheme ABAB XCXC XDXD XEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110101110 110101 11011111 110101 11110111 11001 11011101 111111 01010111 111101 01111111 110001 11010101 010011 11010101 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 441
Words 101
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 23

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Youthful Imagination

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Written on October 09, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on October 09, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on October 09, 2023

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