This is an analysis of The Sailor-Boy by John Clare.
Tis three years and a quarter since I left my own fireside
To go aboard a ship through love, and plough the ocean wide.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd XeaX ddbb eeff gggg XXgg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110101011111101 01010111110101 1111011010101 10101011010111 0100011110011 0110011110101 1101110111111 1101110110101 0111010010101 10111010111101 10101011111 11101111111110 01010101010101 110111011101 1111011110101 11101010111111 11100110010101 0101010111001 11010100011101 1111110111001 1111010010101 11010100101001 0101010110111 101000101010101 11110100111010 11011100111010 0101010110111 11110101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, my
Anaphora
the, i
