Analysis of Fox's Dingle

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)



Take now a country mood,
Resolve, distil it: —
Nine Acre swaying alive,
June flowers that fill it,

Spicy sweet-briar bush,
The uneasy wren
Fluttering from ash to birch
And back again.

Milkwort on its low stem,
Spread hawthorn tree,
Sunlight patching the wood,
A hive-bound bee....

Girls riding nim-nim-nim,
Ladies, trot-trot,
Gentlemen hard at gallop,
Shouting, steam-hot.

Now over the rough turf
Bridles go jingle,
And there's a well-loved pool,
By Fox's Dingle,

Where Sweetheart, my brown mare,
Old Glory's daughter,
May loll her leathern tongue
In snow-cool water.


Scheme XAXA XBXB CDXD CEXE XFXF XGXG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110101 01011 1101001 110111 101101 00101 1001111 0101 11111 111 11001 0111 110111 1011 1001110 1011 110011 1110 010111 11010 11111 1110 11011 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 554
Words 92
Sentences 5
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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