Analysis of Advising Chloë
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Horace: Book I, Ode 23
"Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloë--"
Why shun me, my Chloë? Nor pistol nor bowie
Is mine with intention to kill.
And yet like a llama you run to your mamma;
You tremble as though you were ill.
No lion to rend you, no tiger to end you,
I'm tame as a bird in a cage.
That counsel maternal can run for The Journal--
You get me, I guess. . . . You're of age.
Scheme | X A XAXA XBAB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111 11111 11111110110 11101011 011010111110 11011101 110111110111 11101001 110010111010 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 384 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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