Analysis of Unstooping
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Low on his fours the Lion
Treads with the surly Bear;
But Men straight upward from the dust
Walk with their heads in the air;
The free sweet winds of heaven,
The sunlight from on high
Beat on their clear bright cheeks and browns
As they go striding by;
The doors of all their houses
They arch so they may go,
Uplifted o’er the four-foot beasts,
Unstooping, to and fro.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 110101 11110101 1111001 0111110 01111 11111101 111101 0111110 111111 10010111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 367 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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