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
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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Ellis Parker Butler

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