Analysis of But These Things Also
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
But these things also are Spring's -
On banks by the roadside the grass
Long-dead that is greyer now
Than all the Winter it was;
The shell of a little snail bleached
In the grass; chip of flint, and mite
Of chalk; and the small birds' dung
In splashes of purest white:
All the white things a man mistakes
For earliest violets
Who seeks through Winter's ruins
Something to pay Winter's debts,
While the North blows, and starling flocks
By chattering on and on
Keep their spirits up in the mist,
And Spring's here, Winter's not gone.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 1111011 1110101 111111 1101011 01101011 00111101 1100111 0101101 10110101 1100100 1111010 1011101 10110101 1100101 11101001 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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