Analysis of The Stinging Nettle



The stinging nettle only
Will still be found to stand:
The numberless, the lonely,
The thronger of the land,
The leaf that hurts the hand.

That thrives, come sun, come showers;
Blow east, blow west, it springs;
It peoples towns, and towers
Above the courts of Kings,
And touch it and it stings.


Scheme ABABB CDCDD
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0101010 111111 01010 01101 011101 1111110 111111 1101010 010111 011011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 293
Words 55
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.  more…

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