Analysis of The Statue

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



When we are dead, some Hunting-boy will pass
And find a stone half-hidden in tall grass
And grey with age: but having seen that stone
(Which was your image), ride more slowly on.


Scheme AABC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 0101110011 0111110111 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 183
Words 35
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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