Analysis of Queen Anne's Lace
Honeysuckle, Queen Anne's lace
Sugar baby, angel face
Darling, sweetheart, klutzy grace
These are lover pothers
Dandelions, lawn crabgrass
Sudden touchback, bungled pass
Stupid comments, playful sass
These are common fodders
Nameless flowers, secret crops
Grubby silage, catkin hops
Horrid matters, tasteless glops
These are cut by swathers
Poison ivy, red sumac
Angry grimace, glum sad-sack
Migraine headaches, heart attack
These are pesky bothers
Ragweed pollens, rusty pots
Little bastards, infant tots
Spiteful methods, evil plots
These are sired by fathers
Categories, rich and rare
Sordid couplings, love affair
Blatant orgies, lustful stare
These are dicey rathers
| Scheme | AAAA ABBA CCAA DDDE FFFE GGGA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 100111 1010101 10111 11101 10011 101101 1010101 11101 1010101 10111 1010101 11111 1010110 1010111 11101 111010 110101 1010101 1010101 111110 100101 1010101 1010101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 648 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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