Analysis of The Rocket



I saw a rocket
Like Davie Crockett.
It went so fast,
I didn't see it go past.
It hit the store
and shut our door
And I didn't see it anymore.


Scheme ABCCDDD
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 11010 1111 1101111 1101 01101 01101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 135
Words 31
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on September 09, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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