Analysis of Billy Pringle
Walter Crane 1845 – 1915
Billy Pringle had a little pig,
When it was young it was not very big,
When it was old it lived in clover,
Now it's dead and that's all over.
Billy Pringle he lay down and died,
Betty Pringle she lay down and cried,
So there was an end of one, two, and three,
Billy Pringle he, Betty Pringle she, and the piggy wiggy wee.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010101 1111111101 111111010 11101110 101011101 101011101 1111111101 1010110101001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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