Analysis of Habitations

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



Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1101000101 010010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 90
Words 17
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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