Analysis of Humpty Dumpty

Leonard Leslie Brooke 1862 – 1940



Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

All the King's horses and all the King's men
                    Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.


Scheme AA b b cc
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 1010 10101101 10101011 1011001011 101101001001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 317
Words 41
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Leonard Leslie Brooke

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