Analysis of Foreword To Bib Ballads
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner 1885 (Niles, Michigan) – 1933 (East Hampton, New York)
Dear Parents: - Don't imagine, please,
It's in a boastful spirit
I fashion verses such as these;
That's not the truth or near it.
A hundred or a thousand, yes,
A million kids there may be
Who aren't one iota less
Attractive than this baby.
I'll venture that your household has
As valuable a treasure
As mine, but mine I know, and as
For yours, I've not that pleasure.
And that is why my book's about
Just one, O Dads and Mothers;
But babes are babes, and mine, no doubt,
Is very much like others.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 1001010 11010111 1101111 01010101 0101111 11010101 0101110 1101111 1100010 11111101 1111110 01111101 1111010 11110111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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