Analysis of Miss Mary Fairfax
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Every day Miss Mary goes her rounds,
Through the splendid house and through the grounds,
Looking if the kitchen table's white,
Seeing if the great big fire's alight,
Finding specks on shining pans and pots,
Never praising much, but scolding lots.
If the table's white, she does not see
Roughened hands that once were ivory.
It is fires, not cheeks, that ought to glow;
And if eyes are dim, she doesn't know.
Poor Miss Mary! Poor for all she owns,
Since the things she loves are stocks and stones.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110101 101010101 101010101 1010111001 101110101 101011101 101011111 11110100 1110111111 011111101 111011111 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 387 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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