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
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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Franklin P. Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F. P. A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s. more…

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