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.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 63 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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