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
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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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare was an English poet short story writer and novelist best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners He was born in Kent and was educated at St Pauls Cathedral School His first book Songs of Childhood was published under the name Walter Ramal His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction more…

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