Analysis of Belgravia by Night
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
'THE foxes have holes,
And the birds of the air have nests,
But where shall the heads of the sons of men
Be laid, be laid?'
'Where the cold corpse rests,
Where the sightless moles
Burrow and yet cannot make it afraid,
Rout but cannot wake it again,
There shall the heads of the sons of men
Be laid, be laid!'
| Scheme | abcD badccD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 01011 00110111 1110110111 1111 10111 1011 1001101101 11101101 110110111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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