Analysis of Three Plum Buns
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Three plum buns
To eat here at the stile
In the clover meadow,
For we have walked a mile.
One for you, and one for me,
And one left over:
Give it to the boy who shouts
To scare sheep from the clover.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 111101 00101 111101 1110111 01110 1110111 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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