Analysis of The Ugly Princess
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
My parents bow, and lead them forth,
For all the crowd to see-
Ah well! the people might not care
To cheer a dwarf like me.
They little know how I could love,
How I could plan and toil,
To swell those drudges' scanty gains,
Their mites of rye and oil.
They little know what dreams have been
My playmates, night and day;
Of equal kindness, helpful care,
A mother's perfect sway.
Now earth to earth in convent walls,
To earth in churchyard sod:
I was not good enough for man,
And so am given to God.
Bertrich in the Eifel, 1851.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDBD XEXE C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 110111 11010111 110111 11011111 111101 1111101 111101 11011111 11101 11010101 010011 11110101 11011 11110111 0111011 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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