This is an analysis of The Old Year by John Clare.
The Old Year's gone away
To nothingness and night:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafgfg ahXhagag
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 011101 010011 11011101 111001 11111111 010111 01110101 001111 110101 111101 11010111 110111 1101110010 0100111 0101001010 111111 110101 110101 010101 110101 111101 110101 010111 1011101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
every
Anaphora
old
Anadiplosis
he
