This is an analysis of The Vixen by John Clare.
Among the taller wood with ivy hung,
The old fox plays and dances round her young.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccbbddbX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101010101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110101 0101011101 1110010101 0101110101 1111110001 0101010111 1101110101 1111110101 1101110101 1111110101 0111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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