Analysis of Soggy Vegetables
A vegetable sufficiently boiled
And buttered and salted and oiled
Can taste just like meat
Off a parakeet
Or platypus flambéed then broiled.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 010001001 01001001 11111 1010 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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