Analysis of Old dog queenie
Old Dog Queenie
Was such a meanie,
She spent her life
Barking at the scenery.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 1110 1101 1101 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 78 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
It's a poem from collected works of Langston Hughes children's poems, real short, 4 lines, but in the copy can't read (see) the final word. It goes, Old Dog Queenie Was such a meanie, She spent her life Barking at the (copy is slanted so runs off the page, guessing it should rhyme with -- ife.)
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Submitted by beard.debby on October 19, 2022
Modified by acronimous on July 12, 2023
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