Analysis of The Instinct of Hope

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



Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?
Something about me daily speaks there must,
And why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?
'Tis nature's prophesy that such will be,
And everything seems struggling to explain
The close sealed volume of its mystery.
Time wandering onward keeps its usual pace
As seeming anxious of eternity,
To meet that calm and find a resting place.
E'en the small violet feels a future power
And waits each year renewing blooms to bring,
And surely man is no inferior flower
To die unworthy of a second spring?


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 1111010101 1001110111 0111010101 11011111 0101100101 0111011100 110010111001 1101010100 1111010101 1101100101010 0111010111 010111010010 1101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 573
Words 104
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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John Clare

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