Analysis of O Why Do You Walk (a Parody)
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
O why do you walk through the fields in boots,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody shoots,
Why do you walk through the fields in boots,
When the grass is soft as the breast of coots
And shivering-sweet to the touch?
| Scheme | ABAAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110101 1011011 11110111 111110101 1011110111 01001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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