Analysis of A Paraphrase, By Dr. I.W.
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Why, Mistress Chloe, do you bother
With prattlings and with vain ado
Your worthy and industrious mother,
Eschewing them that come to woo?
Oh, that the awful truth might quicken
This stern conviction to your breast:
You are no longer now a chicken
Too young to quit the parent nest.
So put aside your froward carriage,
And fix your thoughts, whilst yet there's time,
Upon the righteousness of marriage
With some such godly man as I'm.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 110101110 1101101 1100010010 1011111 110101110 11010111 111101010 11110101 11011110 01111111 010100110 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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