Analysis of There Was a Little Girl

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)



There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.


Scheme AABCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 110101 100101010 1111 1110101 111111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 169
Words 36
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. more…

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