Analysis of Napoleon
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
'What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I.'
| Scheme | ABCBDCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 111 110101 1101 10110 1111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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