This is an analysis of At The War Office, London (Affixing The Lists Of Killed And Wounded: December, 1899) by Thomas Hardy.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X Xaabb X cddXc
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,5,
- Metre: 1 1111010110 0101011010 01111101110 11010101101 110001 1 1111011111 110100101110 110100101010 1101011110 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
