This is an analysis of The Dying Child by John Clare.
He could not die when trees were green,
For he loved the time too well.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcdc dcdcd efefe gegeg ccccX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 11111101 1110111 010111001 011011 111101001 01110111 111100001 11111101 11100101 110101 100100001 111101 11011101 111101 1111101 11011101 1111001 11010111 100111 110101 11110101 1101101 11111101 111101 110101 11011101 110111 11110101 011001 111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
he, and
Anaphora
and
