This is an analysis of In Hilly-Wood by John Clare.

How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs,
Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeebdbd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1100110101 01110101001 1011010111 1111110101 0101011001 1101010101 1111011101 1101110101 110010110001 1101010101 0111011100 1101011101 10010010111 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14