Analysis of Hickety Pickety My Black Hen
Leonard Leslie Brooke 1862 – 1940
Hickety Pickety My Black Hen.
Hickety, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.
Scheme | A Ax bb |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 11111 1111100 10011001 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 176 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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