This is an analysis of the poem Dickery Dickery Dock that begins with:

Dickery, dickery dock,
The mouse ran up the clock;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001 011101 0111 0111 1001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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