Analysis of Evening
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
'Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track,
And gone to its nest is the wren,
And the packman snail, too, with his home on his back,
Clings to the bowed bents like a wen.
The shepherd has made a rude mark with his foot
Where his shadow reached when he first came,
And it just touched the tree where his secret love cut
Two letters that stand for love's name.
The evening comes in with the wishes of love,
And the shepherd he looks on the flowers,
And thinks who would praise the soft song of the dove,
And meet joy in these dew-falling hours.
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love,
Where nothing can hear or intrude;
It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove,
In beautiful green solitude.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE DFDF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11001111111 01111101 001011111111 11011101 01011011111 11111111 011101111011 11011111 01010101011 0010111010 01111011101 0110111010 11011011111 11011101 11101001101 0100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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