Analysis of The Mewlips
The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.
You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door,
While down the grinning gargoyles stare
And noisome waters pour.
Beside the rotting river-strand
The drooping willows weep,
And gloomily the gorcrows stand
Croaking in their sleep.
Over the Merlock Mountains a long and weary way,
In a mouldy valley where the trees are grey,
By a dark pool's borders without wind or tide,
Moonless and sunless, the Mewlips hide.
The cellars where the Mewlips sit
Are deep and dank and cold
With single sickly candle lit;
And there they count their gold.
Their walls are wet, their ceiling drip;
Their feet upon the floor,
Go softly with a squish-flap-flip,
As they sidle to the door.
They peep out slyly, through a crack
Their feeling fingers creep,
And when they've finished, in a sack,
Your bones they take to keep.
Beyond the Merlock Mountains, a long and lonely road,
Through the spider-shadows and the marsh of Tode,
And through the wood of hanging trees and the gallows weed,
You got to find the Mewlips -- and the Mewlips feed.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GGHH IJIJ KDKD LFLF XEMM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011011 110111 01010111 100111 11010111 110111 1101011 01101 01010101 01011 0100011 10011 100110010101 00101010111 10111001111 101011 0101011 110101 11010101 011111 11111101 110101 11010111 1110101 11110101 110101 01110001 111111 010110010101 1010100111 0101110100101 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,232 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on March 11, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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