Analysis of Firwood
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The fir trees taper into twigs and wear
The rich blue green of summer all the year,
Softening the roughest tempest almost calm
And offering shelter ever still and warm
To the small path that towels underneath,
Where loudest winds--almost as summer's breath--
Scarce fan the weed that lingers green below
When others out of doors are lost in frost and snow.
And sweet the music trembles on the ear
As the wind suthers through each tiny spear,
Makeshifts for leaves; and yet, so rich they show,
Winter is almost summer where they grow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001101 0111110101 1000101011 01001010101 101111001 110111101 1101110101 110111110101 010101101 1011011101 111011111 101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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