Analysis of The Duck
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or a pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.
| Scheme | AABBCCBD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 1111 0111 11 111001 1010101 11111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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