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 |
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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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