Analysis of If A Mouse Could Fly
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
If a mouse could fly,
Or if a crow could swim,
Or if a sprat could walk and talk,
I’d like to be like him.
If a mouse could fly,
He might fly away;
Or if a crow could swim,
It might turn him grey;
Or if a sprat could walk and talk,
What would he find to say?
| Scheme | ABCbAdBdCd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 10111 110111 11011101 111111 10111 11101 110111 11111 11011101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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