Analysis of Night Wind
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Darkness like midnight from the sobbing woods
Clamours with dismal tidings of the rain
Roaring as rivers breaking loose in floods
To spread and foam and deluge all the plain
The cotter listens at his door again
Half doubting whether it be floods or wind
And through the thickening darkness looks affraid
Thinking of roads that travel has to find
Through night's black depths in danger's garb arrayed
And the loud glabber round the flaze soon stops
When hushed to silence by a lifted hand
Of fearing dame who hears the noise in dread
And thinks a deluge comes to drown the land
Nor dares she go to bed untill the tempest drops
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110101 111010101 1011010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101011111 0101001011 1011110111 111101101 001110111 1111010101 1101110101 0101011101 11111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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