This is an analysis of Architectural Masks by Thomas Hardy.

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There is a house with ivied walls,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbbc X dbddb X aXaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,5,1,5,
  • Metre: 1 10010101 110010111 10110011 11111101 1111 1 001011101 11010101 110100111 01110111 110101 1 01010101 111101011 01010111 11110101 1101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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