Analysis of Houseboat
It’s lovely to live on a boat
So mobile a dwelling and remote,
But beaching in sand
To dock on dry land,
Is nicer than bobbing afloat.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11011101 110010001 11001 11111 11011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
In homage to the Peggotty family
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