Analysis of Jujuba.



Here's Uncle Jujuba,
Who has a sweet tooth;
He used to eat sugar-
Cane oft in his youth,

In South Carolina,
Where sugar-cane grows,
From which they make sugar,
As everyone knows.


Scheme XABA XCBC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101 11011 111110 11011 01010 11011 111110 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 174
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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