Analysis of Busy Little Beaver



Busy little beaver building a dam.
Busy little beaver knows who I am.

Busy little beaver playing in the lake.
Busy little beaver giving a shake.

Busy little beaver digging a hole.
Busy little beaver making a home.

Busy little beaver flapping his tail.
Busy little beaver putting up rails.

Busy little beaver working in the fog.
Busy little beaver chopping up a log.

Busy little beaver picking up sticks.
Busy little beaver doing a lot of tricks.

Busy little beaver running around.
Busy little beaver sleeping sound.


Scheme AA BB XX XX XX CC DD
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1010101001 1010101111 10101010001 1010101001 1010101001 1010101001 1010101011 1010101011 10101010001 10101010101 1010101011 101010100111 1010101001 101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 502
Words 88
Sentences 14
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on September 26, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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