Analysis of John Mouldy
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
Deep down twenty steps of stone;
In the dusk he sat a-smiling
Smiling there all alone.
He read no book, he snuffed no candle;
The rats ran in, the rats ran out,
And far and near, the drip of water
Went whisp'ring about.
The dusk was still, with dew a-falling,
I saw the Dog-star bleak and grim,
I saw a slim brown rat of Norway
Creep over him.
I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
Deep down twenty steps of stone;
In the dusk he sat a-smiling
Smiling there all alone.
Scheme | ABCB xdad cexe ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110011 1110111 00111010 101101 111111110 01100111 010101110 1101 011111010 11011101 11011111 1101 11110011 1110111 00111010 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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