Analysis of Head and Bottle
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum
Lose the bees' hum;
But head and bottle tilted back in the cart
Will never part
Till I am cold as midnight and all my hours
Are beeless flowers.
He neither sees, nor hears, nor smells, nor thinks,
But only drinks,
Quiet in the yard where tree trunks do not lie
More quietly.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 01110111 1011 11010101001 1101 11111101110 1110 1101111111 1101 10001111111 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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