This is an analysis of The Thrush's Nest by John Clare.
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
That overhung a molehill large and round,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101110111 1001011111 1101010101 1101111101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010101 11000010111 1111111101 11010111110 1101010101 11110001010 0101010111 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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