Analysis of Cecily Parsley
Helen Beatrix Potter 1866 ( West Brompton, London) – 1943 (Near Sawrey, Lancashire)
Cecily Parsley lived in a pen,
And brewed good ale for gentlemen;
Gentlemen came every day,
Till Cecily Parsley ran away.
Scheme | XX AA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101001 01111100 10011001 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 121 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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