Analysis of Stroke A Flint
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire:
Strike a flint, and forthwith flash out sparks of fire.
| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101110101 101011111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 111 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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