Analysis of Miss Loo
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
When thin-strewn memory I look through,
I see most clearly poor Miss Loo,
Her tabby cat, her cage of birds,
Her nose, her hair -- her muffled words,
And how she'd open her green eyes,
As if in some immense surprise,
Whenever as we sat at tea,
She made some small remark to me.
It's always drowsy summer when
From out the past she comes again;
The westering sunshine in a pool
Floats in her parlour still and cool;
While the slim bird its lean wires shakes,
As into piercing song it breaks
Till Peter's pale-green eyes ajar
Dream, wake; wake, dream, in one brief bar;
And I am sitting , dull and shy
And she with gaze of vacancy,
And large hands folded on the tray,
Musing the afternoon away;
Her satin bosom heaving slow
With sighs that softly ebb and flow,
And her plain face in such dismay,
It seems unkind to look her way:
Until all cheerful back will come
Her cheerful gleaming spirit home:
And one would think that poor Miss Loo
Asked nothing else, if she had you.
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Metre | 111100111 11110111 01010111 01010101 01110011 11010101 01011111 11110111 1110101 11011101 011001 10010101 101111101 10110111 11011101 11110111 01110101 01111100 01110101 1000101 01010101 11110101 00110101 11011101 01110111 01010101 01111111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 977 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 20 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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