Analysis of Birds In Alarm
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The firetail tells the boys when nests are nigh
And tweets and flies from every passer-bye.
The yellowhammer never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
The nightingale keeps tweeting-churring round
But leaves in silence when the nest is found.
The pewit hollos 'chewrit' as she flies
And flops about the shepherd where he lies;
But when her nest is found she stops her song
And cocks [her] coppled crown and runs along.
Wrens cock their tails and chitter loud and play,
And robins hollo 'tut' and fly away.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFFCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011111 01011100101 0110101 1101010101 01110111001 01111101101 01001111 1101010111 0111111 0101010111 1101111101 011110101 1111010101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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