This is an analysis of Song #3 by John Clare.
I peeled bits of straws and I got switches too
From the grey peeling willow as idlers do,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff ggffhheeeeii
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,
- Metre: 11101111101 00110111101 111101111101 111111011011 11011111101 101001101011 101011011011 11001001101 1010011011011 010110110101 01011011101 111001101001 11101011011 11011101011 111010011001 111111111001 111111111001 111101011011 11101111101 10100101011 11101011001 11101011011 11011101001 101011101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, of, to, my
Anaphora
my
