Analysis of Summer Evening
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The frog half fearful jumps across the path,
And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve
Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath;
My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive,
Till past, and then the cricket sings more strong,
And grasshoppers in merry moods still wear
The short night weary with their fretting song.
Up from behind the molehill jumps the hare,
Cheat of his chosen bed, and from the bank
The yellowhammer flutters in short fears
From off its nest hid in the grasses rank,
And drops again when no more noise it hears.
Thus nature's human link and endless thrall,
Proud man, still seems the enemy of all.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 0101111111 111010101 1101011101 1101010111 010010111 0111011101 110101101 1111010101 0110011 1111100101 0101111111 1101010101 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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