Analysis of Little Bo-Peep
Leonard Leslie Brooke 1862 – 1940
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can't tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
And bring their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left all their tails behind 'em.
Scheme | ABXB ACCC CBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 10111101 0111111 11010111 0111011 10111101 011111 1110111101 1101010 11110101 0101111 11101111011 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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