Analysis of She Has No Ransom Pulchritude



She has no time for gratitude
Her manner is frost-cold
She has no berth for latitude
Her character is bold

She has no useful aptitude
Her faculties are gnarled
She has no skillful magnitude
Her thought process is snarled

She has no kind beatitude
Her style is tersely curt
She has no rescue platitude
Her pleasure is to hurt

She has no ransom pulchritude
Her stagger makes heads turn
She has no modest attitude
Her caustic statements burn


Scheme ABAB AXAX ACAC ADAD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1111110 010111 1111110 010011 1111010 010011 1111010 011110 11111 011101 1111010 010111 111101 010111 1111010 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 423
Words 78
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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