This is an analysis of A Dream Or No by Thomas Hardy.

Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me?
I've been but made fancy…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddX effe gaag ahha Xcbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 11011011001 101110 111010 11011101101 11111011001 1010010 101010 111110111110 101101101101 110110 011010 11011101001 11011011101 110111 010101 11010011111 11011011011 1110101 110111 010110110001 111001111001 1010010 011110 11011001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

and, me

Epiphora

her, me, here