Analysis of Eight O'clock
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Eight o'clock;
The postman's knock!
Five letters for Papa;
One for Lou,
And none for you,
And three for dear Mamma.
Scheme | AABCCB |
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Poetic Form | Boy Named Sue Sestain |
Metre | 101 011 110110 111 0111 011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 123 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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