Analysis of A Gotham Garden of Verses
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
In summer when the days are hot
The subway is delayed a lot;
In winter, quite the selfsame thing;
In autumn also, and in spring.
And does it not seem strange to you
That transportation is askew
In this--I pray, restrain your mirth!--
In this, the Greatest Town on Earth?
All night long and every night
The neighbors dance for my delight;
I hear the people dance and sing
Like practically anything.
Women and men and girls and boys,
All making curious kinds of noise
And dancing in so weird a way,
I never saw the like by day.
So loud a show was never heard
As that which yesternight occurred:
They danced and sang, as I have said,
As I lay wakeful in my bed.
They shout and cry and yell and laugh
And play upon the phonograph;
And endlessly I count the sheep,
Endeavouring to fall asleep.
It is very nice to think
This town is full of meat and drink;
That is, I'd think it very nice
If my pappa but had the price.
This town is so full of a number of folks,
I'm sure there will always be matter for jokes.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NN |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 01010111 0110101 0101011 01010001 01111111 1010101 01110111 01010111 11101001 01011101 11010101 110010 10010101 110100111 01001101 11010111 11011101 111101 11011111 1111011 11010101 0101010 01001101 11101 1110111 11111101 11111101 11101101 11111101011 1111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,013 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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