Analysis of Chicago Weather
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl!
Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow,
Or, ling'ring where the brooklets purl,
Laves in the cool, refreshing flow.
To-morrow, Thisbe, with a host
Of amorous suitors in her train,
Comes like a goddess forth to coast
Or skate upon the frozen main.
To-day, sweet posies mark her track,
While birds sing gayly in the trees;
To-morrow morn, her sealskin sack
Defies the piping polar breeze.
So Doris is to-day enthused
By Thisbe's soft, responsive sighs,
And on the morrow is confused
By Thisbe's cold, repellent eyes.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1111101 110011101 1111011 10010101 1101101 110010001 11010111 11010101 1111101 1111001 1101011 01010101 11011101 1110101 01010101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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