Analysis of Cousin Nell
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
Cousin Nell
married a frogman
in the hope
that one day
he would turn into
a handsome prince.
Instead he turned into
a sewage pipe
near Gravesend
and was never seen again.
| Scheme | XXXABX BXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 101 1001 001 111 11101 0101 011101 0101 11 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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