Analysis of Epitaph on the Favourite Dog of a Politician

Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953



Here lies a Dog.- may every Dog that dies
Lie in security - as this Dog lies.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 11011100111 1001001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 85
Words 20
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 24, 2023

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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902, but kept his French citizenship. more…

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