Poems
John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant poet.
Measured across the book
Across its 3,189 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.08 times what shuffling the words would give (0.31 observed against 0.28 expected). 12% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
What Is Life?iambic pentameter · 32 linesIn Wintertrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 277 linesNoontrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 76 linesThe Universal Epitaphiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 linesThe Harvest Morningiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 72 linesOn an Infant’s Graveiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 16 linesTo an April Daisyiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 linesSummer Eveningiambic tetrameter · AABB · 174 linesPattyiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesPatty of the Valetrochaic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesMy Love, Thou Art a Nosegay Sweetiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Meetingtrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesEffusioniambic pentameter · AABB · 54 linesBalladiambic tetrameter · AAABCCCB · 24 linesSongiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 16 linesThe Gipsy’s Campiambic pentameter · AABB · 36 linesTo the Cloudsiambic pentameter · 22 linesDedicated to the Rev. J. Knowles Hollandiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 153 linesRural Eveningiambic pentameter · AABB · 150 linesRustic Fishingiambic pentameter · AABB · 80 linesJuneiambic pentameter · AABB · 116 linesDecemberiambic tetrameter · 128 linesThe Approach of Springiambic tetrameter · 128 linesTo the Rural Museiambic pentameter · ABABBCDCDD · 160 linesSummer Imagesiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 196 linesAutumniambic trimeter · unrhymed · 120 linesThe Vanities of Lifeiambic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 160 linesThoughts in a Church-Yardiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesThe Nightingale’s Nestiambic pentameter · 93 linesTo Piambic tetrameter · 32 linesA World for Loveiambic heptameter · AABB · 20 linesSongiambic tetrameter · 20 linesLoveiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesDecayiambic tetrameter · 80 linesPastoral Fanciesiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 63 linesThe Autumn Robiniambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 120 linesA Spring Morningiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesThe Crab-Treeiambic pentameter · ABABACDCDEFEFF · 14 linesWinteriambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOld Poesyiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 lines’Tis Spring, My Love, ’Tis Springiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 24 linesGraves of Infantsiambic pentameter · 18 linesHome Yearningsiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 42 linesLove Lives Beyond the TombABAB · 24 linesMy Early Homeiambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Tell-Tale Flowersiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 72 linesTo John Miltoniambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 66 linesI Am! Yet What I Amiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 18 linesBiography4 lines
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