Analysis of Farmer's Boy
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing stranger what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
He mutters stories to himself and lies
Where the thick hedge the warmest house supplies,
And when he hears the hunters far and wide
He climbs the highest tree to see them ride--
He climbs till all the fields are blea and bare
And makes the old crow's nest an easy chair.
And soon his sheep are got in other grounds--
He hastens down and fears his master come,
He stops the gap and keeps them all in bounds
And tends them closely till it's time for home.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 0101010101 1111011101 1111010111 1101010101 1011010101 0111010101 1101011111 1111011101 0101111101 0111110101 1101011101 1101011101 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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