Analysis of Grown-Up Talk
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Half-Past-Six and I were talking
In a very grown-up way;
We had got so tired with running
That we did not want to play.
"How do babies come, I wonder,"
He said, looking at the sky,
"Does God mix the things together
An' just make it-like a pie?"
I was really not quite certain,
But it sounded very nice;
It was all that we could think of,
Besides a book said "sugar and spice."
Half-Past-Six said--He's so clever--
Cleverer than me, I mean...
"I suppose God makes the black ones
When the saucepan isn't clean."
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE CFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101010 0010111 111110110 1111111 11101110 1110101 11101010 1111101 11101110 1110101 11111111 010111001 11111110 11111 10111011 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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