Analysis of The Floorless Room
Gelett Burgess 1866 (Boston) – 1951
I Wish that my Room had a Floor!
I don't so Much Care for a Door,
But this Crawling Around
Without Touching the Ground
Is Getting to be Quite a Bore!
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11111101 11111101 111001 011001 11011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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