Analysis of Sir, Say No More
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
Sir, say no more.
Within me 't is as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind's poor birds.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 0111111 010101101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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