This is an analysis of Shovel And Tongs by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Poker proposed to the shovel
That they should be man and wife,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXX baba bcXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 010010010 1110111 111111101 111001110 01011110 1111010 11100100101 111010110 11010010 01101001 10111101011 10111111 1010110110 00111011 111001101111 01111011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
