This is an analysis of The Badger by John Clare.
WHEN midnight comes a host of dogs and men
Go out and track the badger to his den,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbaaddcceeffbbggbbhhddbbcchhaaaadd
- Stanza lengths: 40,
- Metre: 1111010111 1111010001 1101010111 1011010101 1111110101 0111011101 0101110001 1011110101 110110111 1101111001 1111010101 11111101001 1101111111 1111110101 1101010111 1101001101 0101011011 1101110101 0111110101 0101110101 1101110111 11011101101 0101010001 1111011101 0111011101 0101110101 1101110111 1101010111 0101010101 0101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 11011101001 1111011101 1111111111 1111110101 1111110111 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, him, he, them
Anaphora
the, and
