Analysis of An Intercepted Valentine

Carolyn Wells 1862 (Rahway) – 1942



Little Bo-Peep, will you be mine?
I want you for my Valentine.
You are my choice of all the girls,
With your blushing cheeks and your fluttering curls,
With your ribbons gay and your kirtle neat,
None other is so fair and sweet.
Little Bo-Peep, let's run away,
And marry each other on Midsummer Day;
And ever to you I'll be fond and true,

Your faithful Valentine,
LITTLE BOY BLUE.


Scheme AABBCCDDE AE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111111 1111110 11111101 11101011001 111010111 11011101 10111101 01011011101 0101111101 11010 1011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 378
Words 72
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 147
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Carolyn Wells

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