Analysis of Mr. Finney's Turnip
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Mr. Finney had a turnip,
And it grew, and it grew,
And it grew behind the barn,
And the turnip did no harm.
And it grew, and it grew,
Till it could grow no taller;
Then Mr. Finney took it up
And put it in the cellar.
There it lay, there it lay,
Till it began to rot ;
When his daughter Susie washed it
And put it in the pot.
Then she boiled it and boiled it,
As long as she was able;
Then his daughter Susie took it
And put it on the table.
Mr. Finney and his wife
Both sat down to sup;
And they ate, and they ate,
Until they ate the turnip up.
Scheme | aBxx Bcac xded efef xaxa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10101010 011011 0110101 0010111 011011 1111110 11010111 0110010 111111 110111 11101011 011001 1111011 1111110 11101011 0111010 1010011 11111 011011 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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