Analysis of Bonny Lassie O!
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O!
To meet the cooler air and walk an angel there,
With the dark dishevelled hair,
Bonny lassie O!
The bloom's on the brere, bonny lassie O!
Oak apples on the tree; and wilt thou gang to see
The shed I've made for thee,
Bonny lassie O!
Tis agen the running brook, bonny lassie O!
In a grassy nook hard by, with a little patch of sky,
And a bush to keep us dry,
Bonny lassie O!
There's the daisy all the year, bonny lassie O!
There's the king-cup bright as gold, and the speedwell never cold,
And the arum leaves unrolled,
Bonny lassie O!
O meet me at the shed, bonny lassie O!
With a woodbine peeping in, and the roses like thy skin
Blushing, thy praise to win,
Bonny lassie O!
I will meet thee there at e'en, bonny lassie O!
When the bee sips in the bean, and grey willow branches lean,
And the moonbeam looks between,
Bonny lassie O!
| Scheme | abbA accA addA aeeA affA aggA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101010110101 110101011101 10111 10101 0110110101 110101011111 011111 10101 11010110101 00101111010111 0011111 10101 101010110101 1011111001101 001011 10101 11110110101 1011000010111 101111 10101 1111111110101 1011001011101 001101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 863 |
| Words | 173 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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