Analysis of Valentine To The Girl In Black
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
In hand I take this pen of mine
To write you, sweet, a valentine;
I’d take your dainty hand instead,
But—you’re a drawing—I am wed—
And that is why, you understand,
I only take my pen in hand.
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 01111111 1111010 11110101 11010111 0111101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 205 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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