Analysis of Mrs Moon
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
Mrs Moon
sitting up in the sky
little old lady
rock-a-bye
with a ball of fading light
and silvery needles
knitting the night
| Scheme | ABCBDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101001 10110 101 1011101 010010 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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