Analysis of That Flesh is Grass is Now as Clear as Day
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
“That flesh is grass is now as clear as day,
To any but the merest purblind pup,
Death cuts it down, and then, to make her hay,
My Lady B-- comes and rakes it up.”
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111111 110101011 1111011101 110110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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