Analysis of Rainbows and Unicorns



Beautiful girl to have and to hold,
fair of face and hair of gold.
Rainbow colors shine from a light,
as unicorn stories are told each night.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 100111011 1110111 1101101 110101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 138
Words 27
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 24, 2018

Modified on April 21, 2023

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