Analysis of Catharine Breese Livingston
Major Henry Livingston Jr. 1748 (Poughkeepsie, Province of New York) – 1828 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
I fondly nursed an opening rose,
And view'd its beauties every day;
But ah! a withering storm arose
And swept my lovely flower away.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110111001 011101001 110100101 011101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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