Analysis of "Helen Brown"



Her name is helen brown,
The sweetest gal in town,
She knocks them dead,
When she's dressed in red, but she looks like
Helen brown!


Scheme AABCA
Poetic Form Cinquain  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 011101 010101 1111 111011111 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 127
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on September 13, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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