This is an analysis of Written In Northampton County Asylum by John Clare.

I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbX acacbb dbdbee
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111111111 11011101001 1101010011 11110101001 1101110101 1111111111 0001000111 0001010101 1101010111 1011001101 11111011101 1111110101 1111111101 1111010111 1001010101 1111011101 1011111111 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

i, of

Anaphora

into