Analysis of Pope And McDowell



Pope and McDowell
Fighting for a town,
Up jumped General Lee
And knocked 'em both down.


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 10010 10101 111001 01111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 92
Words 18
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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