Analysis of Angels At The Foot
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Angels at the foot,
And Angels at the head,
And like a curly little lamb
My pretty babe in bed.
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 10101 010101 01010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 103 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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