Analysis of About the Little Girl that Beat Her Sister
Ann Taylor 1782 (Islington) – 1866
Go, go, my naughty girl, and kiss
Your little sister dear;
I must not have such things as this,
And noisy quarrels here.
What! little children scratch and fight,
That ought to be so mild;
Oh! Mary, it's a shocking sight
To see an angry child.
I can't imagine, for my part,
The reason for your folly;
She did not do you any hurt
By playing with your dolly.
See, see, the little tears that run
Fast from her watery eye:
Come, my sweet innocent, have done,
'Twill do no good to cry.
Go, Mary, wipe her tears away,
And make it up with kisses:
And never turn a pretty play
To such a pet as this is.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDXD EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 11110101 110101 11111111 010101 11010101 111111 11010101 111101 11010111 0101110 11111101 1101110 11010111 1101001 11110011 111111 11010101 0111110 01010101 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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