This is an analysis of At Day-Close In November by Thomas Hardy.

The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01110010 1011101 10111010 111101 11110011 1111001 1110010111 1110101 101011011 01111010 01111111 0111001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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