Analysis of The Poet's Death
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar flourish like a weed,
The learned pass away.
We miss him on the summer path
The lonely summer day,
Where mowers cut the pleasant swath
And maidens make the hay.
The vulgar take but little heed;
The garden wants his care;
There lies the book he used to read,
There stands the empty chair.
The boat laid up, the voyage oer,
And passed the stormy wave,
The world is going as before,
The poet in his grave.
Scheme | ABAB XBXB ACXC CDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 011111 01010101 01101 11110101 010101 11010101 010101 01011101 010111 11011111 110101 01110101 010101 01110101 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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