Analysis of Suburban Dames
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
All day long
We sew fine muslin up for you to wear,
Muslin that women wove for you elsewhere,
A million strong.
Just like flames,
Insatiable, you eat up all our hours,
And sun and loves and talk and flowers,
Suburban dames.
| Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111 1111011111 101101111 0101 111 010011111010 010101010 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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