Analysis of The Moth
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into glooming and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!'
Lovely in dye and fan,
A-tremble in shimmering grace,
A moth from her winter swoon
Uplifts her face:
Stares from her glamorous eyes;
Wafts her on plumes like mist;
In ecstasy swirls and sways
To her strange tryst.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 10011 110111 10110101 0111 100101 01001001 0110101 101 1101001 101111 0100101 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 334 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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