This is an analysis of Merry Maid by John Clare.
Bonny and stout and brown, without a hat,
She frowns offended when they call her fat--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011110101 1101011101 1110010001 1111110101 1111011111 1101111101 0101011111 10101010101 11111101001 1101000111 1101011101 0101010101 1100011101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
she, and
Anaphora
but
