Analysis of Ode to Del
I once knew a guy nicknamed Del,
whose kitchen had an awful smell,
cause Del couldn't cook,
not even out of a book,
by all of the smoke you could tell.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 1110111 11011101 11101 1101101 11101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 147 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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