[source:wikipedia:greeneggsandham]

The meter of Green Eggs and Ham is a combination of trochaic and iambic tetrameter…

I would not, could not, in a box.

I could not, would not, with a fox.

I will not eat them in a house.

I will not eat them with a mouse.

I will not eat them here or there.

I will not eat them anywhere.

I do not eat green eggs and ham.

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Bennet Cerf, Dr. Seuss’s publisher, wagered $50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words.

The fifty words:

a

am

and

anywhere

are

be

boat

box

car

could

dark

do

eat

eggs

fox

goat

good

green

ham

here

house

I

if

in

let

like

may

me

mouse

not

on

or

rain

Sam

say

see

so

thank

that

the

them

there

they

train

tree

try

will

with

would

you

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