Analysis of To A Couple Of Students Who Were Teasing Her
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
Where are you going, my dear little greenhorns?
Here, I'll teach you how to turn a verse or two
Young drones sucking at withered flowers,
Little goats brushing horns against a fence.
Scheme | ABAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011101 11111110111 111011010 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 190 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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