Analysis of A Pin Has A Head, But Has No Hair
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A pin has a head, but has no hair;
A clock has a face, but no mouth there;
Needles have eyes, but they cannot see;
A fly has a trunk without lock or key;
A timepiece may lose, but cannot win;
A corn-field dimples without a chin;
A hill has no leg, but has a foot;
A wine-glass a stem, but not a root;
A watch has hands, but no thumb or finger;
A boot has a tongue, but is no singer;
Rivers run, though they have no feet;
A saw has teeth, but it does not eat;
Ash-trees have keys, yet never a lock;
And baby crows, without being a cock.
| Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011011111 011011111 101111101 0110101111 01111101 011100101 011111101 011011101 0111111110 0110111110 10111111 011111111 111111001 0101011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 543 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 395 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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