This is an analysis of Letter In Verse by John Clare.

Like boys that run behind the loaded wain
For the mere joy of riding back again,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceebbXcffXX
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 1100011101 11101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110001 1101010110 11110110101 1101010110 1001010111 0111011101 1101000101 1101111111 1111010101 1101110101 1101110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

to, and, her

Anaphora

and