Analysis of Here's A Nut
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
'Here's a nut, there's a nut;
Hide it quick away,
In a hole, under leaves,
To eat some winter day.
Acorns sweet are plenty,
We will have them all:
Skip and scamper lively
Till the last ones fall.'
Scheme | ABCBDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 11101 001101 111101 101110 11111 101010 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 197 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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