Analysis of A Sigh.
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Again freckled cowslips are gilding the plain,
And crow-flowers yellow again o'er the lea,
Again the speck'd throstle comes in with her strain,
And welcomes the spring--but no spring can I see.
I once hail'd the throstle, her singing begun,
And bath'd in spring's dew when her flower met my eyes;
I sought for the kingcup all cloth'd in the sun,
And gather'd my cowslips, and joy'd in the prize.
They brought nature's spring, and they comforted me,
They wip'd winter off, and did pleasure restore;
But, alas! in their tidings a change can I see,
Fate's added a postscript, "Thy spring is no more."
Scheme | ABAB CDCD BEBE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0110111001 011010011001 0101110101 01001111111 1110101001 010111010111 1110111001 0101101001 11101011001 11101011001 101011001111 1100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 22, 2023
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