Analysis of Tit for Tat
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
I OFTEN pass a gracious tree
Whose name I can't identify,
But still I bow, in courtesy
It waves a bough, in kind reply.
I do not know your name, O tree
(Are you a hemlock or a pine?)
But why should that embarrass me?
Quite probably you don't know mine.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 1111010 11110100 11010101 11111111 1101101 11110101 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 259 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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