Analysis of Emmonsail's Heath in Winter
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
I love to see the old heath's withered brake
Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,
While the old heron from the lonely lake
Starts slow and flaps its melancholy wing,
An oddling crow in idle motion swing
On the half-rotten ash-tree's topmost twig,
Beside whose trunk the gypsy makes his bed.
Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig
Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread;
The fieldfares chatter in the whistling thorn
And for the haw round fields and closen rove,
And coy bumbarrels, twenty in a drove,
Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
And hang on little twigs and start again.
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Metre | 1111011101 101111101 1011010101 110111001 111010101 101101111 0111010111 110101101 1011010101 011000101 010111011 01110001 110100101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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