Analysis of CLOVER (Limerick)
David Gabriel Caplan 1948 (Glasgow)
My neighbour had a fluffy cat
Cold, aloof and very fat
Now it's dead, her precious Clover
Driving home I ran it over...
Looks much better now it's flat.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 1110101 1010101 11101010 10111110 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on September 29, 2020
Modified on March 23, 2023
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