Analysis of I can't abear
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
I can't abear a butcher,
I can't abide his meat,
The ugliest shop of all is his,
The ugliest in the street;
Bakers' are warm, cobblers' dark
Chemists' burn watery lights;
But oh, the sawdust butchers shop
That ugliest of sights.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 110111 010011111 0100001 1011101 1011001 1101101 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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