This is an analysis of A Wasted Illness by Thomas Hardy.
Through vaults of pain,
Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXc dede fXfX ghgh ijij jcjcXafaf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1101 10011010100 1111010111 11001 1100 11111100101 0101011101 1111 10101 001101101001 0101110101 1101 1111 10101111010010 1111110111 11000 1111 0101001111 11000010111 1101 1111 1101010101 1111010101 1111 1101 1100110111 1101111101 1001 11101 0101110101 11110101001 1111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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