This is an analysis of Earth's Eternity by John Clare.

Man, Earth's poor shadow! talks of Earth's decay:
But hath it nothing of eternal kin?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbbababa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101000101 1100111101 1101010101 1101111001 10010101101 0100110111 1100010101 0101010001 1110001101 10110100101 0111110111 1111011101 1001110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

no