Analysis of To Phyllis And May
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May,
Which of you carried my heart away?
Who has my heart? I would like to know
Which was the guilty one of the two,
But I only know it was filched one day
By fair, sweet Phyllis, or sweet, fair May.
| Scheme | AABCAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100111 111101101 111111111 110101101 1110111111 111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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