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.…
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
