Analysis of The Firetail's Nest
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
'Tweet' pipes the robin as the cat creeps by
Her nestling young that in the elderns lie,
And then the bluecap tootles in its glee,
Picking the flies from orchard apple tree,
And 'pink' the chaffinch cries its well-known strain,
Urging its kind to utter 'pink' again,
While in a quiet mood hedgesparrows try
An inward stir of shadowed melody.
Around the rotten tree the firetail mourns
As the old hedger to his toil returns,
Chopping the grain to stop the gap close by
The hole where her blue eggs in safety lie.
Of everything that stirs she dreameth wrong
And pipes her 'tweet tut' fears the whole day long.
Scheme | AABBCDABEFAAGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 010110011 01011011 1001110101 010111111 1011110101 10010111 1101110100 010101011 1011011101 1001110111 0110110101 11011111 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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