Analysis of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
Should Heaven send me any son,
I hope he's not like Tennyson.
I'd rather have him play a fiddle
Than rise and bow and speak an idyll.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011101 11111100 110111010 110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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