Analysis of Mr Nobody
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
I know a funny little man,
As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
In everybody’s house.
There’s no one ever sees his face,
And yet we all agree
That every plate we break was cracked
By Mr., Nobody
‘Tis he who always tears our books,
who leaves our doors ajar;
he pulls the buttons from our shirts,
and scatters pins afar,
that squeaking door will always squeak,
because of this you see:
we leave the oiling to be done
by Mr Nobody.
He puts damp wood upon the fire,
So kettles cannot boil;
His are the feet that bring in mud
And all the carpets soil.
The papers always are mislaid,
Who had them last but he?
There’s no one tosses them about
But Mr. Nobody
Scheme | xabaxcxC xdxdxcbC xexexcxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 110101 11010111 011 11110111 011101 110011111 1101 11111101 1110101 110101101 01101 1101111 011111 11010111 1101 111101010 110101 11011101 010101 0101101 111111 11110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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