Analysis of A Frisky Lamb
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A frisky lamb
And a frisky child
Playing their pranks
In a cowslip meadow:
The sky all blue
And the air all mild
And the fields all sun
And the lanes half shadow.
| Scheme | ABCDEBFD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 00101 1011 00101 0111 00111 00111 00111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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