Analysis of Mary Bateman
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
My love she wears a cotton plaid,
A bonnet of the straw;
Her cheeks are leaves of roses spread,
Her lips are like the haw.
In truth she is as sweet a maid
As true love ever saw.
Her curls are ever in my eyes,
As nets by Cupid flung;
Her voice will oft my sleep surprise,
More sweet then ballad sung.
O Mary Bateman's curling hair!
I wake, and there is nothing there.
I wake, and fall asleep again,
The same delights in visions rise;
There's nothing can appear more plain
Than those rose cheeks and those bright eyes.
I wake again, and all alone
Sits Darkness on his ebon throne.
All silent runs the silver Trent,
The cobweb veils are all wet through,
A silver bead's on every bent,
On every leaf a bleb of dew.
I sighed, the moon it shone so clear;
Was Mary Bateman walking here?
Scheme | XAXAXA BCBCDD XBXBEE FGFGXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 010101 01111101 011101 01111101 111101 01110011 111101 01111101 111101 1101101 11011101 11010101 01010101 11010111 11110111 11010101 1101111 11010101 0111111 010111001 110010111 11011111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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