Analysis of Yankee Was A Bad Man, Yankee Was A Thief,
Yankee was a bad man, Yankee was a thief,
Yankee came to my house and stole a side of beef;
I went to Yankee's house, Yankee he had fled,
Caught him on the battle-field, and there I killed him dead.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101110101 101111010111 11110110111 1110101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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