Analysis of Silver
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100101 10100101 11011101 10101101 111011 010101001 10110101 11110101 1110010111 11010101 010111001 11010101 01100101 110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 400 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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