This is an analysis of A Culinary Puzzle by Ellis Parker Butler.

In our dainty little kitchen,
Where my aproned wife is queen…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabacdcD aecefdfD Xdgdgdbd dhahgXfd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 01101010 11100101 10101110 0010101 11101010 1110111 11111010 1111000 10001110 010111 101110100 001000101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1111000 11101110 1010111 10101110 1110111 00101110 1011111 11111010 1011000 10111011 011111 11111010 1010001 10101011 1011100 11101110 1010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

her