Analysis of Song #1
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Mary, leave thy lowly cot
When thy thickest jobs are done;
When thy friends will miss thee not,
Mary, to the pastures run.
Where we met the other night
Neath the bush upon the plain,
Be it dark or be it light,
Ye may guess we'll meet again.
Should ye go or should ye not,
Never shilly-shally, dear.
Leave your work and leave your cot,
Nothing need ye doubt or fear:
Fools may tell ye lies in spite,
Calling me a roving swain;
Think what passed the other night--
I'll be bound ye'll meet again.
| Scheme | ABABCDCE AFAFCDCE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1110111 1111111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1111111 1111101 1111111 10111 1110111 1011111 1111101 1010101 1110101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 486 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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