Analysis of Brownie.



There is a brown dolly
Who has a guitar;
She plays on it always,
Tra lal, tra lal la!

She has a new ditty
For every day;
I wish you could hear it,
Tra lal, tra lal lay!


Scheme AXXX ABXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 110110 11001 11111 11111 110110 11001 111111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 164
Words 39
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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