Analysis of A City Plum Is Not A Plum
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A city plum is not a plum;
A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;
A party rat is not a rat;
A sailor's cat is not a cat;
A soldier's frog is not a frog;
A captain's log is not a log.
Scheme | AABBCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 01111111 01011101 01011101 01011101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 188 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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