This is an analysis of First Love by John Clare.
I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd edeXfbfb egegeheh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 111101110 01110111 010110110 11110101 11111101 11010101 11111111 11111101 11111011 11111101 01110101 111110 11110101 101101 11111001 111111 1100101 011111 11011101 110101 11011101 111101 11110101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
my, and
Anaphora
my, and