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 |
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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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