Analysis of An Answer to Frances Cornford
Why do you rush through the fields in trains,
Guessing so much and so much.
Why do you flash through the flowery meads,
Fat-head poet that nobody reads;
And why do you know such a frightful lot
About people in gloves and such?
| Scheme | ABCCDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Sestet |
| Metre | 111110101 1011011 1111101001 1110111 0111110101 01100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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