Analysis of Peggy's The Lady Of The Hall
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
And will she leave the lowly clowns
For silk and satins gay,
Her woollen aprons and drab gowns
For lady's cold array?
And will she leave the wild hedge rose,
The redbreast and the wren,
And will she leave her Sunday beaus
And milk shed in the glen?
And will she leave her kind friends all
To be the Lady of the Hall?
The cowslips bowed their golden drops,
The white thorn white as sheets;
The lamb agen the old ewe stops,
The wren and robin tweets.
And Peggy took her milk pails still,
And sang her evening song,
To milk her cows on Cowslip Hill
For half the summer long.
But silk and satins rich and rare
Are doomed for Peggy still to wear.
But when the May had turned to haws,
The hedge rose swelled to hips,
Peggy was missed without a cause,
And left us in eclipse.
The shepherd in the hovel milks,
Where builds the little wren,
And Peggy's gone, all clad in silks--
Far from the happy glen,
From dog-rose, woodbine, clover, all
To be the Lady of the Hall.
Scheme | ababxcacdD exeafgfghh xixijcjcdD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 01110101 110101 01010011 110101 01110111 01001 0111011 011001 01110111 11010101 0111101 011111 0110111 010101 01010111 010101 11011101 110101 11010101 11110111 11011111 011111 10110101 011001 01000101 110101 0111101 110101 1111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 938 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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