Analysis of The Linnet
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Upon this leafy bush
With thorns and roses in it,
Flutters a thing of light,
A twittering linnet.
And all the throbbing world
Of dew and sun and air
By this small parcel of life
Is made more fair;
As if each bramble-spray
And mounded gold-wreathed furze,
Harebell and little thyme,
Were only hers;
As if this beauty and grace
Did to one bird belong,
And, at a flutter of wing,
Might vanish in song.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHHJKJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 1101001 100111 0110 010101 110101 1111011 1111 111101 01111 10101 0100 1111001 111101 0101011 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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