This is an analysis of John Mouldy by Walter de la Mare.
I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
Deep down twenty steps of stone;…
Browse poems by Walter de la Mare
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XABA XcXc bdXd XABA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111100010 1110101 00111010 101101 111111110 01100111 111101010 11001 011101010 11011111 110111011 1101 111100010 1110101 00111010 101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
i
Anadiplosis
smiling
