Analysis of West London
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square
A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied;
A babe was in her arms, and at her side
A girl; their clothes were rags, their feet were bare.
Some labouring men, whose work lay somewhere there,
Pass'd opposite; she touch'd her girl, who hied
Across, and begg'd and came back satisfied.
The rich she had let pass with frozen stare.
Thought I: Above her state this spirit towers;
She will not ask of aliens, but of friends,
Of sharers in a common human fate.
She turns from that cold succour, which attneds
The unknown little from the unknowing great,
And points us to a better time than ours.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDECEC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 0111110011 0110010101 0111011101 11111111 1100110111 010101110 0111111101 11010111010 11111100111 110010101 11111111 00110100101 01110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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