This is an analysis of Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams by Thomas Hardy.

I dream that the dearest I ever knew
Has died and been entombed.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcd ebebfdfd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1110101101 111001 11100111001 11111000 1001011110 11111 101101110 11111 01101101110 1010101 11111000010 1111001 110111010 110111 110011110 11111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

i, me

Anaphora

and