Analysis of A Word to Husbands
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 1111010 1100101 01011011 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 125 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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