Analysis of The Purple Cow
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
but I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 1101111 1111110 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 134 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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