Analysis of Death Of A Wombat
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I never reared a young Wombat
To glad me with his pin-hole eye,
But when he most was sweet & fat
And tail-less; he was sure to die!
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101011 11111111 1111111 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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