Analysis of Winter Walk
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the leafless shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
And O it is delicious, when the day
In winter's loaded garment keenly blows
And turns her back on sudden falling snows,
To go where gravel pathways creep between
Arches of evergreen that scarce let through
A single feather of the driving storm;
And in the bitterest day that ever blew
The walk will find some places still and warm
Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm
To little birds that flirt and start away.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010111 1101011101 0111011111 1101010011 0111010101 0101010101 0101110101 111101101 101101111 0101010101 00010011101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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