Analysis of The City Mouse And The Garden Mouse
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The city mouse lives in a house; -
The garden mouse lives in a bower,
He's friendly with the frogs and toads,
And sees the pretty plants in flower.
The city mouse eats bread and cheese; -
The garden mouse eats what he can;
We will not grudge him seeds and stalks,
Poor little timid furry man.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011001 010110010 11010101 010101010 01011101 01011111 11111101 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 299 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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