Analysis of The Romantic Age
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
This one is entering her teens,
Ripe for sentimental scenes,
Has picked a gangling unripe male.
Sees herself in bridal veil,
Presses lips and tosses head,
Declares she's not too young to wed,
Informs you pertly you forget
Romeo and Juliet.
Do not argue, do not shout;
Remind her how that one turned out.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 11110001 110101 110111 1010101 1010101 01111111 0111101 10010 1110111 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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