Analysis of Nod
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Softly along the road of evening,
In a twilight dim with rose,
Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew
Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.
His drowsy flock streams on before him,
Their fleeces charged with gold,
To where the sun's last beam leans low
On Nod the shepherd's fold.
The hedge is quick and green with briar,
From their sand the conies creep;
And all the birds that fly in heaven
Flock singing home to sleep.
His lambs outnumber a noon's roses,
Yet, when night's shadows fall,
His blind old sheep-dog, Slumber-soon,
Misses not one of all.
His are the quiet steeps of dreamland,
The waters of no-more-pain,
His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars,
'Rest, rest, and rest again.'
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 100101110 001111 10110111 110101 110111011 110111 11011111 110101 011101110 111011 010111010 110111 110100110 11111 11111101 101111 11010111 0101111 111111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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