Analysis of Evening Primrose
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
When once the sun sinks in the west,
And dewdrops pearl the evening's breast;
Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
Or its companionable star,
The evening primrose opes anew
Its delicate blossoms to the dew;
And, hermit-like, shunning the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the night,
Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
Knows not the beauty it possesses;
Thus it blooms on while night is by;
When day looks out with open eye,
Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,
It faints and withers and is gone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001 0110101 111111 1111 0101101 110010101 01011001 11110101 11111010 110101010 11111111 11111101 11011101 11010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 386 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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