Analysis of Sudden Shower

John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)



Black grows the southern sky, betokening rain,
And humming hive-bees homeward hurry bye:
They feel the change; so let us shun the grain,
And take the broad road while our feet are dry.
Ay, there some dropples moistened on my face,
And pattered on my hat--tis coming nigh!
Let's look about, and find a sheltering place.
The little things around, like you and I,
Are hurrying through the grass to shun the shower.
Here stoops an ash-tree--hark! the wind gets high,
But never mind; this ivy, for an hour,
Rain as it may, will keep us dryly here:
That little wren knows well his sheltering bower,
Nor leaves his dry house though we come so near.


Scheme ABABCBCBDBDEDF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 0101110101 1101111101 01011110111 111110111 0101111101 11010101001 0101011101 110010111010 1111110111 11011101110 1111111101 110111110010 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 636
Words 118
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 496
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Clare

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