Analysis of In Hilly-Wood
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs,
Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me;
Faintly are heard the ploughmen at their ploughs,
But not an eye can find its way to see.
The sunbeams scarce molest me with a smile,
So thick the leafy armies gather round;
And where they do, the breeze blows cool the while,
Their leafy shadows dancing on the ground.
Full many a flower, too, wishing to be seen,
Perks up its head the hiding grass between.-
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;
Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,
Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,
Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.
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Metre | 1111110101 01110111 101101111 1111111111 011011101 1101010101 0111011101 110110101 110010110111 1111010101 0111011111 1101011101 110110101 111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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