Analysis of The Likeness
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
When I came forth this morn I saw
Quite twenty cloudlets in the air;
And then I saw a flock of sheep,
Which told me how these clouds came there.
That flock of sheep, on that green grass,
Well might it lie so still and proud!
Its likeness had been drawn in heaven,
On a blue sky, in silvery cloud.
I gazed me up, I gazed me down,
And swore, though good the likeness was,
'Twas a long way from justice done
To such white wool, such sparkling grass.
Scheme | XAXA BCDC XXDB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111 1101001 01110111 11111111 11111111 11111101 110111010 101101001 11111111 01110101 10111101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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