This is an analysis of Departure. by Thomas Hardy.
While the far farewell music thins and fails,
And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba abbX acXccX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
- Metre: 1011110111 1011010101 1101000111 1101001111 11010010101 1101110101 0101111101 10111010111 11110011111 1111000101 1101010100 1011110111 110010110101 10011101110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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