Analysis of To a Post Office Inkwell
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
How many humble hearts have dipped
In you, and scrawled their manuscript!
Have shared their secrets, told their cares,
Their curious and quaint affairs!
Your pool of ink, your scratchy pen,
Have moved the lives of unborn men,
And watched young people, breathing hard,
Put Heaven on a postal card.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 0101110 11110111 11000101 11111101 11011111 01110101 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 304 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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