Analysis of To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Lady in the blue kimono, you that live across the way,
One may see you gazing, gazing gazing all the livelong day,
Idly looking out your window from your vantage point above.
Are you convalescent, lady? Are you worse? Are you in love?
Ever gazing, as you hang there on the little window seat,
Into flats across the way or down upon the prosy street,
Can't you rent a pianola? Can't you iron, sew, or cook?
Write a letter, bake a pudding, make a bed or read a book?
Tell me of the fascination you indubitably find
In the "High Cash Cloe's!" man's holler in the hurdy-gurdy grind.
Are your Spanish castles blue prints? Are you waiting for a knight
To descend upon your fastness and to save you from your plight?
Lady in the blue kimono, idle mollycoddle dame,
Does your doing nothing never make you feel the blush of shame?
As you sit and stare and ditto, not a single thing to do,
Lady in the blue kimono, lady, how I envy you!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100010101110101 11111010101011 101011101110101 11010101111101 101011111010101 01101011101011 111011110111 101010101011101 1110010111 0011111000111 111010111110101 101011100111111 10001010101001 111010101110111 111010101010111 100010101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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