Analysis of Meet Me in the Green Glen
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Love, meet me in the green glen,
Beside the tall elm-tree,
Where the sweetbriar smells so sweet agen;
There come with me.
Meet me in the green glen.
Meet me at the sunset
Down in the green glen,
Where we've often met
By hawthorn-tree and foxes' den,
Meet me in the green glen.
Meet me in the green glen,
By sweetbriar bushes there;
Meet me by your own sen,
Where the wild thyme blossoms fair.
Meet me in the green glen.
Meet me by the sweetbriar,
By the mole-hill swelling there;
When the west glows like a fire
God's crimson bed is there.
Meet me in the green glen.
| Scheme | ababA cacaA AdadA bdxdA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1110011 010111 1011111 1111 110011 11101 10011 11101 1110101 110011 110011 11101 111111 1011101 110011 11101 1011101 10111010 110111 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 574 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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