Analysis of Pat and the Cat

Charboo 2008 (Geelong)



Once there was a boy named pat,
He tired to sit on a cat,
He gave it a try,
But the cat said bye-bye,
And went speeding off just like that


Scheme AABBA
Poetic Form Limerick 
Metre 1110111 11011101 11101 101111 01101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 138
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on September 23, 2021

Submitted by gay_turtle on November 24, 2021

Modified on April 02, 2023

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