Analysis of To a Prospective Cook
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Curly locks, Curly Locks, wilt thou be ours?
Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet weed the flowers,
But stand in the kitchen and cook a fine meal,
And ride every night in an automobile.
Curly Locks, Curly Locks, come to us soon!
Thou needest not to rise until mid-afternoon;
Thou mayest be Croatian, Armenian, or Greek;
Thy guerdon shall be what thy askest per week.
Curly Locks, Curly Locks, give us a chance!
Thou shalt not wash windows, nor iron my pants.
Oh, come to the cosiest of seven-room bowers,
Curly Locks, Curly Locks, wilt thou be ours?
Scheme | Aabb ccdd xxaA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 10110111110 111110111010 11001001011 01100101100 1011011111 1111101101 111010010011 111111111 1011011101 11111011011 11101110110 10110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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