This is an analysis of A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy.
The day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababc ddddX efdedd dXadaa fgfgg XdXdd eceXc
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,6,6,5,5,5,
- Metre: 010101 11000100011100 11001001 01110100100110 110101 1101011 11010101011101 100101 10110001010101 110110 1001001 1111011111011 1 101111 00010101010101 100111 100101 01111111110011 1 111101 110101010101011 110101 101101 11101010011101 111111 010001110100101 111101 1110011 011100011111011 110110 01100100011001 110101 1110011 11010111110100 100101 11000001011000 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
some
Anadiplosis
regret
