Analysis of Hop-O'-My-Thumb And Little Jack Horner
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner,
What do you mean by tearing and fighting?
Sturdy dog Trot close round the corner,
I never caught him growling and biting.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010110 1111110010 101111010 1101110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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