Analysis of Man From Nantucket
There one was a man from Nantucket
Who carried all of his stuff in a bucket
His watch, his wallet, his what-cha-ma-call it.
Even a feather from a duck who did pluck it.
| Scheme | ABAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011010 11011110010 11110111111 100101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 166 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on September 05, 2021
Submitted by aspengraphix on September 05, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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