Analysis of Wasps
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
Where are you wandering to, little fools
Come, big sister will teach you how to write verse
Itchy little wasps sucking rotting flowers
Horny baby lambkins butting gaps in the fence
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001101 11101111111 10101101010 10101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 185 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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