Analysis of Shearer



there's only one alan shearer, one alan shearer walking
along, singing a song, walking in a shearer wonderland.
there's only one alan shearer, one alan shearer walking
along, singing a song, walking in a shearer wonderland.


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110110101101010 01100110001010 110110101101010 01100110001010
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 220
Words 36
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on November 06, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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