Analysis of Tom's Little Dog
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Tom told his dog called Tim to beg,
And up at once he sat,
His two clear amber eyes fixed fast,
His haunches on his mat.Tom poised a lump of sugar on
His nose; then, "Trust!" says he;
Stiff as a guardsman sat his Tim;
Never a hair stirred he.
"Paid for!" says Tom; and in a trice
Up jerked that moist black nose;
A snap of teeth, a crunch, a munch,
And down the sugar goes!
Scheme | XXXXAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 011111 11110111 111111011101 111111 1101111 100111 11110001 111111 01110101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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