Analysis of The Lion
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste,
He has a big head and a very small waist;
But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim,
And a good little child will not play with him.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01001011001 11011001011 111011011111 00110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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