Analysis of Quail's Nest
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
I wandered out one rainy day
And heard a bird with merry joys
Cry 'wet my foot' for half the way;
I stood and wondered at the noise,
When from my foot a bird did flee--
The rain flew bouncing from her breast
I wondered what the bird could be,
And almost trampled on her nest.
The nest was full of eggs and round--
I met a shepherd in the vales,
And stood to tell him what I found.
He knew and said it was a quail's,
For he himself the nest had found,
Among the wheat and on the green,
When going on his daily round,
With eggs as many as fifteen.
Among the stranger birds they feed,
Their summer flight is short and low;
There's very few know where they breed,
And scarcely any where they go.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEB EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 01011101 11111101 11010101 11110111 01110101 11010111 0110101 01111101 11010001 01111111 11011101 11010111 01010101 11011101 11110101 01010111 11011101 11011111 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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