Analysis of Little Miss Muffet



Little Miss Muffet
Goes to the Market
She buys marbles
She buys mud-men,mud-women
and round and round
She had many rounds
On board the merry-go-around

Now at last
Merrily she`s back
to her mother`s lap


Scheme AAXXAXA AXX
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1011 11010 1110 111110 0101 11101 11010101 111 10011 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 192
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 3
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on June 12, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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