Analysis of Up and Down
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Down the Hill of Ludgate,
Up the Hill of Fleet,
To and fro and East and West
With people flows the street;
Even the King of England
On Temple Bar must beat
For leave to ride to Ludgate
Down the Hill of Fleet.
Scheme | AAAAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
Metre | 10111 10111 1010101 110101 1001110 110111 111111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 209 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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