Analysis of A House Of Cards
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A house of cards
Is neat and small:
Shake the table,
It must fall.
Find the Court cards
One by one;
Raise it, roof it, -
Now it's done: -
Shake the table!
That's the fun.
| Scheme | abCbadedCd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (70%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 0111 1101 1010 111 1011 111 1111 111 1010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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