Analysis of What Will You Give Me For My Pound?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
What will you give me for my pound?
Full twenty shillings round.
What will you give me for my shilling?
Twelve pence to give I'm willing.
What will you give me for my penny?
Four farthings, just so many.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11111111 110101 111111110 1111110 111111110 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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