Analysis of Sunday Dip
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The morning road is thronged with merry boys
Who seek the water for their Sunday joys;
They run to seek the shallow pit, and wade
And dance about the water in the shade.
The boldest ventures first and dashes in,
And others go and follow to the chin,
And duck about, and try to lose their fears,
And laugh to hear the thunder in their ears.
They bundle up the rushes for a boat
And try across the deepest place to float:
Beneath the willow trees they ride and stoop--
The awkward load will scarcely bear them up.
Without their aid the others float away,
And play about the water half the day.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 110101111 1111010101 0101010001 0101010100 0101010101 0101011111 0111010011 1101010101 0101010111 010111101 0101110111 0111010101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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