Analysis of A Lovely Young Lass Called Clarrie
George Cook 1934 (Lanarkshire)
A lovely young lass called Carrie
Met a boy whom she hoped she would marry
But daddy said "No,
I won't have it so.
You can't marry any Tom, Dick or Harry."
Scheme | AABBA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Limerick (80%) Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 01011110 1011111110 11011 11111 11101011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 155 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
One of the many Limericks which I have written.
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