Analysis of The Vulture
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
The Vulture eats between his meals,
And that's the reason why
He very, very, rarely feels
As well as you and I.
His eye is dull, his head is bald,
His neck is growing thinner.
Oh! what a lesson for us all
To only eat at dinner!
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010111 010101 11010101 111101 11111111 1111010 11010111 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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