Analysis of There Was a Little Girl
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 110101 100101010 1111 1110101 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 169 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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