Analysis of The Better Part
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
THERE'S a grey old church on a wind-swept hill
Where three bent yew trees cower,
The gipsy roses grow there still,
And the thyme and Saint John's gold flower,
The pale blue violets that love the chalk
Cling light round the lichened stone,
And starlings chatter and grey owls talk
In the belfry o' nights alone.
It's a thousand leagues and a thousand years
From the brick-built, gas-lit town
To the little church where the wild thyme hears
The bees and the breeze of the down.
The town is crowded and hard and rough;
Let those fight in its press who will--
But the little churchyard is quiet enough,
And there's room in the churchyard still.
Scheme | ABABXCXC XDXDEAEA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110111 1111110 0110111 001011110 0111001101 111011 01100111 00101101 1010100101 1011111 1010110111 01001101 011100101 11101111 1010111001 0110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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