Analysis of To Anna Three Years Old
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
My Anna, summer laughs in mirth,
And we will of the party be,
And leave the crickets in the hearth
For green fields' merry minstrelsy.
I see thee now with little hand
Catch at each object passing bye,
The happiest thing in all the land
Except the bee and butterfly.
* * * * *
And limpid brook that leaps along,
Gilt with the summer's burnished gleam,
Will stop thy little tale or song
To gaze upon its crimping stream.
Thou'lt leave my hand with eager speed
The new discovered things to see--
The old pond with its water weed
And danger-daring willow tree,
Who leans an ancient invalid
Oer spots where deepest waters be.
In sudden shout and wild surprise
I hear thy simple wonderment,
As new things meet thy childish eyes
And wake some innocent intent;
As bird or bee or butterfly
Bounds through the crowd of merry leaves
And starts the rapture of thine eye
To run for what it neer achieves.
But thou art on the bed of pain,
So tells each poor forsaken toy.
Ah, could I see that happy hour
When these shall be thy heart's employ,
And see thee toddle oer the plain,
And stoop for flowers, and shout for joy.
Scheme | XAXB CDCD EFEF GAGAXA BXBX DBDB HIXIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 01110101 01010001 111101 11111101 11110101 010010101 0101010 1 0111101 11010101 11110111 11011101 11111101 01010111 01111101 0101011 11110100 11110101 01010101 11110100 11111101 01110001 1111110 11011101 01010111 11111101 11110111 11110101 111111010 11111101 01110101 011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,082 |
Words | 210 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1, 4, 6, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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