This is an analysis of Birds At Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy.

Around the house the flakes fly faster,
And all the berries now are gone…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBXaXbaB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 010101110 11010111 01011000 010101110 101111100 11010101 010101110 11010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8