Analysis of When I Came Last to Ludlow
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the moonlight pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest friends and hale.
Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the moonlight pale.
| Scheme | aBxb xbaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 01011 1111011 110101 1111001 011101 011111 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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