Analysis of A Pocket Handkerchief To Hem
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A pocket handkerchief to hem -
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
How many stitches it will take
Before it's done, I fear.
Yet set a stitch and then a stitch,
And stitch and stitch away,
Till stitch by stitch the hem is done -
And after work is play!
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010011 111111 11010111 011111 11010101 010101 11110111 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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