Analysis of On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Baby Babbles--only one,
Now to sit up has begun.
Little Babbles quite turned two
Walks as well as I and you.
And Miss Babbles one, two, three,
Has a teaspoon at her tea.
But her Highness at four
Learns to open the front door.
And her Majesty--now six,
Can her shoestrings neatly fix.
Babbles, babbles, have a care,
You will soon put up your hair!
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 101101 1111101 101111 1111101 011111 101101 101011 1110011 0010011 101101 11101 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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