Analysis of The punishment for dancing (Limerick)
In the cells of the king Edaroes
There are twelve royal girls with sore toes,
And there they'll be kept
For at night when all slept,
They slipped out and danced holes in their shoes.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 0011011 111101111 01111 111111 111011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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