This is an analysis of The Ants by John Clare.
What wonder strikes the curious, while he views
The black ant's city, by a rotten tree,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcddXaba
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11010100111 0111010101 1111010011 1001111111 1100111100 1101110101 1011011100 1111001111 1111010101 0111011101 10110101000 1111011111 1111111110 011000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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