Analysis of The Thrush's Nest
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy; and often, an intruding guest,
I watched her secret toil from day to day -
How true she warped the moss to form a nest,
And modelled it within with wood and clay;
And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,
There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,
Ink-spotted over shells of greeny blue;
And there I witnessed, in the sunny hours,
A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly,
Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.
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Metre | 010101011 100101101 1111110101 111101101 1101010101 1101011111 1111011101 011011101 0101111111 11010111110 110101111 01110001010 0111010101 110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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