This is an analysis of After The Visit by Thomas Hardy.

Come again to the place
Where your presence was as a leaf that skims…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabccbbddbeffegeegXeed
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 101001 1110110111 1010110110 0110101 101001 101101101001 111101001101 0101101 011011 0010010101001 111101001001 10110111 101100 1111101011 1100100101 10110101 111001 11101100101 0110101001 1100111 1100 0010100111 1110111111 11101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

your