This is an analysis of Peggy's The Lady Of The Hall by John Clare.

And will she leave the lowly clowns
For silk and satins gay,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacXcdD eeeXdfdfggXaeaeececdD
  • Stanza lengths: 10,21,
  • Metre: 10110101 111101 01010111 110101 10110111 010101 10110111 111001 10110111 00010001 01011101 011111 01100111 011101 11010111 110101 01011101 110101 11110111 11110101 11011101 011101 10110101 111001 01000101 110101 11011101 100101 01110101 00010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

and, the