Analysis of How Many Seconds In A Minute?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
How many seconds in a minute?
Sixty, and no more in it.
How many minutes in an hour?
Sixty for sun and shower.
How many hours in a day?
Twenty-four for work and play.
How many days in a week?
Seven both to hear and speak.
How many weeks in a month?
Four, as the swift moon runneth.
How many months in a year?
Twelve the almanack makes clear.
How many years in an age?
One hundred says the sage.
How many ages in time?
No one knows the rhyme.
| Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFGGHHII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100010 1001101 110100110 1011010 11010001 1011101 1101001 1011101 1101001 110111 1101001 10111 1101011 110101 1101001 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 449 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 17 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 333 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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