Analysis of Cousin Nancy
T. S. Eliot 1888 (St. Louis, Missouri, United States) – 1965 (Kensington)
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100 10101011 10101011 0101101 1011 100110 1101001 01101010 0010111111011 11111110 0101111 10010100101 0101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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