Analysis of Where She Told Her Love
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
I saw her crop a rose
Right early in the day,
And I went to kiss the place
Where she broke the rose away
And I saw the patten rings
Where she o'er the stile had gone,
And I love all other things
Her bright eyes look upon.
If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree,
The whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
I have a pleasant hill
Which I sit upon for hours,
Where she cropt some sprigs of thyme
And other little flowers;
And she muttered as she did it
As does beauty in a dream,
And I loved her when she hid it
On her breast, so like to cream,
Near the brown mole on her neck that to me a diamond shone;
Then my eye was like to fire, and my heart was like to stone.
There is a small green place
Where cowslips early curled,
Which on Sabbath day I traced,
The dearest in the world.
A little oak spreads o'er it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
There is not a woodland nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
Scheme | XABACXCXDD XEXEFGFGHH BIXIFJFJXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 110101 110001 0111101 1110101 0110101 11100111 0111101 011101 1110101110101 0110111110111 110101 11101110 1111111 0101010 01101111 1110001 01101111 1011111 10111011110101 111111100111111 110111 11101 1110111 010001 01011101 01011 0111011 010101 111011111011 1101111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,016 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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