This is an analysis of Farewell by John Clare.
Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river
And the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbbb XXbb
- Stanza lengths: 6,4,4,
- Metre: 110010110010 1011010110010 110010110110 11001011011010 11001101011 00100111101 111011110010 0010110110110 11001111010 001011010011010 00101010110111 00110111010010 0011110011110 0010101011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
to, farewell, in, prison
Anaphora
farewell, in, to