Analysis of The Vixen
John Clare 1793 (Helpston) – 1864 (St Andrew's Hospital)
Among the taller wood with ivy hung,
The old fox plays and dances round her young.
She snuffs and barks if any passes by
And swings her tail and turns prepared to fly.
The horseman hurries by, she bolts to see,
And turns agen, from danger never free.
If any stands she runs among the poles
And barks and snaps and drive them in the holes.
The shepherd sees them and the boy goes by
And gets a stick and progs the hole to try.
They get all still and lie in safety sure,
And out again when everything’s secure,
And start and snap at blackbirds bouncing by
To fight and catch the great white butterfly.
Scheme | AABBCCDDBBEEBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 0111010101 1101110101 0101010111 0101011111 011110101 1101110101 0101011001 0101100111 0101010111 1111010101 010111001 0101110101 110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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