Analysis of Echoes
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.
She took her little porringer:
Of me she shall not win renown:
For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her
down.
"Sisters and brothers, little Maid?
There stands the Inspector at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four."
"Kind words are more than coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea."
Scheme | ABB ACXC XDD XEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 111111 100110101010101 110101 11111101 1011110111110 1 10010101 110010111 101111111110111 11111101 110100111 1101010101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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