Analysis of Illusion

Labeeqa Baneen 2003 (Okara, Pakistan)



There was a little girl who used to cry,
She asked her mother to make her fly.
She was obsessed with aerial.
But, she was afraid of malarial.
Her mother told her it's illusion of an eye.


Scheme AABBA
Poetic Form Limerick  (60%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101011111 110101101 11011100 1110110100 010101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 186
Words 41
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 37

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Written on April 27, 2023

Submitted by Labeeqabaneen227 on April 27, 2023

Modified on May 01, 2023

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