Analysis of Miss Mischievous
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Miss Don't-do-this and Don't-do-that
Has such a sunny smile
You cannot help but chuckle at
Her cuteness and her guile.
Her locks are silken floss of gold,
Her eyes are pansy blue:
Maybe of years to eighty old
The best is two.
Miss Don't-do-this and Don't-do-that
To roguishness is fain;
To guard that laughter-loving brat
Is quite a strain;
But when she tires of prank and play
And says good-night,
I'm longing for another day
Of child delight.
Miss Don't-do-this and Don't-do-that
Will grow up soon.
I hope she'll never throw her hat
Athwart the moon.
Yet I'll be sorrowful indeed,
Remembering a day
Before she learned to humbly heed
The word OBEY.
Scheme | Ababcdcd Aeaefgfg Ahahifif |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 110101 11011101 010001 01110111 011101 10111101 0111 11110111 1111 11110101 1101 111101101 0111 11010101 1101 11110111 1111 11110101 0101 11110001 010001 01111101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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