This is an analysis of A King's Soliloquy [on The Night Of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy.
From the slow march and muffled drum,
And crowds distrest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXab cdcd eded fgfg hiXi bbbb hihX jcjc kckc ifif ilil
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00111101 1110 111111111 0111 01110101 0111 111111101 1011 10010001 0111 11111111 1111 01010011 1101 1001001 0101 11010100 11011 11010100 11111 1110011101 1011 00110111 0011 11010101 1101 10110110 101010 11011101 1101 101010100 1111 11111111 0101 110101001 01001 11001101 0101 10111100 1011 10110101 1110 10011111 1111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
and, that, i
Anaphora
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