Analysis of Old Mother Seward
Old Mother Seward,
She went to the Lee-ward,
To get her dog a Union bone.
She got to Manassas,
And saw them harrass us -
Lord! how Mother Seward did groan.
| Scheme | ABCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 111011 11010101 111010 01111 11101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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