Analysis of Jumbo Jet
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg your pardon?',
I said 'This place is England, what are you doing here?',
He said 'Ah, then I must be lost' and then 'Oh dear, oh dear'.
'I should be back in Africa, on Serengeti's Plain',
'Pray, where is the nearest station where I can catch a train?'.
He caught the bus to Finchley and then to Mincing lane,
And over the Embankment, where he got lost, again.
The police they put him in a cell, but it was far too small,
So they tied him to a lamp-post and he slept against the wall.
But as the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn,
The lamp-post and the wall were there, but the elephant was gone!
So if you see an elephant, in a Jumbo Jet,
You can be sure that Africa's the place he's trying to get!
Scheme | AAXX BBBX CCDD EE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100100110 111101011111110 1111110111101 11111111011111 11110100111 11101010111101 110111011101 0100010111101 001111001111111 111110110110101 11001011010100111 011001011010011 1111110000101 111111000111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted by RobertHaigh on June 27, 2020
Modified by RobertHaigh on June 27, 2020
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