This is an analysis of The Lout by John Clare.
For Sunday's play he never makes excuse,
But plays at taw, and buys his Spanish juice.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 1111110101 1101110101 11110100101 1111110101 0101010001 1101011101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010111 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, her
Anaphora
he, and
