Analysis of Esther Mae



Esther Mae Casey lived by the sea.
I asked her to walk the beach with me.
We walked and talked and enjoyed the day.
We became friends along the way.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 101101101 110110111 110100101 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 145
Words 30
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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