Analysis of A Widow's Weeds
Walter De La Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, and not too deep,
And down came April - drip - drip - drip.
Up shone May, like gold, and soon
Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
And now all summer she sits and sews
Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
And all she has is all she needs -
A poor Old Widow in her weeds.
Scheme | AabcddaeffgghijjaA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110001 101011101 11100111 01110111 1111101 111101101 011101101 1111011 10101 1001011 1110111 10100111 1110101 10111111 11101011 0110101111 01111111 01110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 513 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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