Analysis of In London Town
Walter Learned 1847 ( New London, Connecticut,) – 1915 ( New London, Connecticut,)
It is not here I best enjoy
The pleasure, that can never cloy,
Of idly roaming London town,
Where such familiar names look down
Upon the wanderer in the street,
From Cheapside, Cornhill, and the Fleet.
The noisy, pushing, bustling crowd,
The din of trade and traffic loud,
Confuse the too bewildered sense
And drive a thousand memories hence.
When in the quiet town once more,
Where not a murmur of the roar
Of busy trade or loud displays
Disturb the quiet of her ways,
Backward my soul will turn and then
Will walk these London streets again;
While wits and poets of years gone by,
Who now in dim cathedrals lie,
Will meet me where their memories make
The places dearer for their sake —
And with their shades perchance a few
Of living forms shall mingle too.
So, often when the daylight dies,
Shall I at evcning close my eyes
To walk again the Strand, the Fleet,
And every dear familiar street,
And, undisturbed by din or roar,
Find every house and nook once more.
My London, which I carry west,
Is peopled only by her best.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLCCFFMM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 01011101 11010101 11010111 010100001 111001 010101001 01110101 01010101 010101001 10010111 11010101 11011101 01010101 10111101 11110101 110101111 11010101 111111001 01010111 01110101 11011101 1101011 1111111 11010101 010010101 0011111 110010111 11011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,006 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 807 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 189 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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