Analysis of The Stinging Nettle
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
The stinging nettle only
Will still be found to stand:
The numberless, the lonely,
The thronger of the land,
The leaf that hurts the hand.
That thrives, come sun, come showers;
Blow east, blow west, it springs;
It peoples towns, and towers
Above the courts of Kings,
And touch it and it stings.
Scheme | ABABB CDCDD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101010 111111 01010 01101 011101 1111110 111111 1101010 010111 011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 293 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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