This is an analysis of A Week by Thomas Hardy.

On Monday night I closed my door,
And thought you were not as heretofore,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd dXd XXX eee
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11111111 111011101 110101111 11111101 10011101 010101111 11110101 111100101 100011110 11111111 11011111 110111001 11101001 010011101 11101111 11110011 1100101110 11110100 11111101 11111111 01110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 27

Anaphora

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