Analysis of They Who Prepare My Evening Meal Below
Henry David Thoreau 1817 (Concord) – 1862 (Concord)
They who prepare my evening meal below
Carelessly hit the kettle as they go
With tongs or shovel,
And ringing round and round,
Out of this hovel
It makes an eastern temple by the sound.
At first I thought a cow bell right at hand
Mid birches sounded o'er the open land,
Where I plucked flowers
Many years ago,
Spending midsummer hours
With such secure delight they hardly seemed to flow.
| Scheme | AABCBC DDEAEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110101 1001010111 11110 010101 11110 1111010101 1111011111 1110100101 11110 10101 1011010 110101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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