This is an analysis of Before Marching and After by Thomas Hardy.
Orion swung southward aslant
Where the starved Egdon pine-trees had thinned,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcc Xadabec dfdfbec
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
- Metre: 01011010 101101111 01001101 001011001 1111010001111 011110111110 110011111010 01111001 11101111 11011000 1110001100 1111010011101 1111110100111 011011111010 1011010110 101011001 111010110 11011011 11111011101 111011011011 0101001011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
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