This is an analysis of House Or Window Flies by John Clare.

These little window dwellers, in cottages and halls, were always
entertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from sunrise…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXXba
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1101010010011011 1010011010001011011 01111100110011100 1010101101111101 11011111101001010 11001011011011001000 11111111101101101 1101110100111001110 101001111111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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