Analysis of Song of the Little White Girl
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter?
Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter?
Because it is just a white baby you see,
And it's the black ones you like, cabbage tree?
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, you're a strange fellow
With your green hair and your legs browny-yellow.
Wouldn't you like to have curls, dear, like me?
What! No one to make them? O poor cabbage tree!
Never mind, cabbage tree, when I am taller,
And if you grow, please, a little bit smaller,
I shall be able by that time, bay be,
To make you the loveliest curls, cabbage tree.
| Scheme | AABB CCBB AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10110111010 11110111110 01111011011 0101111101 10110110110 1111011110 1011111111 11111111101 10110111110 01111010110 1111011111 111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 554 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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