Analysis of Humpty Dumpty
Leonard Leslie Brooke 1862 – 1940
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
| Scheme | AA b b cc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 1010 10101101 10101011 1011001011 101101001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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