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> I got 100% of the first line. Obviously you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You might try listening to the song before making an obviously false claim.

Here's an official PDF with lyrics: https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-el...



“There’s” isn’t considered to be part of the line, but rather the anacrusis. But whatever, you win. The Elements confirmed not a banger.


In the same way that "I" isn't part of the first line of "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"? That "I've" isn't part of the second line? That the first "and" isn't part of the line "And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium", even though the other three are? That only the second half of "in short" belongs to the line "in short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral"? All of these are in metrically identical positions.

You really think a poem in which every line begins with an identical anacrusis, where the "anacrusis" is required without exception, is properly analyzed as using anacruses?


Shhh, quiet bro. It's okay to be wrong, you know?




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