Analysis of Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock
And so the mouse climbed up her clock
To catch a pail, she said by three,
but to me,
she is suddenly
| Scheme | AABBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 10011 01011101 11011111 111 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 134 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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