Analysis of Company Manners
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,--
'It's unpolite, when they's Company,
To say you've drinked _two_ cups, you see,--
But say you've drinked _a couple_ of tea.'
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 111010111 1111100 11111111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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