Analysis of Betty
Betty Botter bought a beaver.
But the beastly beaver bit her.
So she bought a biting badger.
And the badger bit the beaver.
Since the badger bit the beaver,
now the beaver will not bite her.
So ‘twas better Betty Botter
bought a beaver-biting badger.
| Scheme | AAAAAAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
| Metre | 1011010 1011010 11101010 00101010 10101010 10101110 1110101 10101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on September 26, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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