Analysis of Dancing Skeletons
Michael Kroll 1961 (New Jersey)
It’s Halloween time which means trick or treat,
and the scariest of monsters its time to meet.
They’ll be ghosts and goblins witches and ghouls,
It’s the best time of year, scaring has no rules!
There will be Werewolf’s, Vampires, even big Bats,
Mummies and Phantoms, beware the black Cats!
But the strangest thing you’ll see will put you in a trance,
Beware of the skeletons, the ones who can dance.
From the Mambo to the twist, they can do them all,
They will twist and shout at the Monster Ball.
They will shimmy to the left, and then to the right,
then dance on the ceiling all through the night.
I know what you’re thinking, Skeletons don’t dance,
They’re supposed to scare, your fright to enhance.
The only thing they should do is go out and scare,
But a dancing Skeleton, that has got to be rare.
They don’t have much fun other parts of the year,
just lie around doing nothing is what I hear.
They rather dance and sing and bob for an apple,
To them it’s more fun to party then grapple.
They’ll go door to door and yell trick or treat,
Then compare what they got, man this is sweet.
They eat all they want, they’re nothing but bones,
And love their ice cream, always on cones.
And so, for one time a year, there’s no need to run,
Just remember these skeletons just want some fun.
They’ll be your friend and even make you laugh,
But don’t show them your candy, or they’ll take half!
After Halloween though, I can’t promise they’ll be nice,
They dance just once a year, hardly ever twice.
The rest of the year they just sit around bored,
That doesn’t mean fresh bodies they won’t try to hoard.
So, when it’s dark outside and you’re playing in the street,
And by chance a smiling skeleton you happen to meet.
If the calendar doesn’t say it’s October thirty one,
You better grab your friends, scream, turn, and run!!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFFD DGGXX HHAA IIJJK KLLMM AAJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111111 001001101111 1110101001 10111110111 1111101011 1001001011 1010111111001 011010001111 101010111111 1110110101 111010101101 1110101101 11111010011 1011111101 010111111101 1010100111111 11111101101 110110101111 110101011110 11111110110 1111101111 1011111111 1111111011 01111111 011110111111 101011001111 1111010111 11111101111 100111110111 11110110101 01101111011 11111011111 1111110110001 01101010011011 10100111010101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,921 |
Words | 383 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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