This is an analysis of Early Nightingale by John Clare.
When first we hear the shy-come nightingales,
They seem to mutter o’er their songs in fear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbacbbccdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110111000 1101011101 1111110101 1110111101 0101000111 11001010110 0101010111 0101011101 0101110101 1101011101 1101110101 1011111101 1101010101 0101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
