Analysis of Now Is Past
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
_Now_ is past--the happy _now_
When we together roved
Beneath the wildwood's oak-tree bough
And Nature said we loved.
Winter's blast
The _now_ since then has crept between,
And left us both apart.
Winters that withered all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
Now is past.
_Now_ is past since last we met
Beneath the hazel bough;
Before the evening sun was set
Her shadow stretched below.
Autumn's blast
Has stained and blighted every bough;
Wild strawberries like her lips
Have left the mosses green below,
Her bloom's upon the hips.
Now is past.
_Now_ is past, is changed agen,
The woods and fields are painted new.
Wild strawberries which both gathered then,
None know now where they grew.
The skys oercast.
Wood strawberries faded from wood sides,
Green leaves have all turned yellow;
No Adelaide walks the wood rides,
True love has no bed-fellow.
Now is past.
Scheme | abcbbababB bcbdbcedeB aaaxbfdfdB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1110101 110101 0101111 010111 101 01111101 011101 10110101 110101 111 1111111 010101 01010111 01101 101 110101001 110101 11010101 010101 111 111111 01011101 11011101 111111 011 11010111 1111110 1101011 1111110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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