Analysis of Partners
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
Love took chambers on our street
Opposite to mine;
On his door he tacked a neat,
Clearly lettered sign.
Straightway grew his custom great,
For his sign read so:
'Hearts united while you wait.
Step in. Love and Co.'
Much I wondered who was 'Co.'
In Love’s partnership;
Thought across the street I’d go—
Learn from Love’s own lip.
So I went; and since that day
Life is hard for me.
I was buncoed! (By the way,
'Co.' is Jealousy.)
Scheme | ABAB CDCD DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101101 10011 1111101 10101 111101 11111 1010111 10101 1110111 0110 1010111 11111 1110111 11111 111101 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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