Old dog queenie
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It's a poem from collected works of Langston Hughes children's poems, real short, 4 lines, but in the copy can't read (see) the final word. It goes, Old Dog Queenie Was such a meanie, She spent her life Barking at the (copy is slanted so runs off the page, guessing it should rhyme with -- ife.)
Submitted by beard.debby on October 19, 2022
Modified by acronimous on July 12, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 78 |
Words | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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