This is an analysis of During Wind And Rain by Thomas Hardy.

THEY sing their dearest songs--
He, she, all of them--yea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcDa cbebeAc fbbbbDfXcbabaAa
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,15,
  • Metre: 111101 111001 1011011 1101 00101011 11001 10111101 110101 101101 100111 10101 1110101 110000 10111101 11101001 11101 100101 001001 1111001 11001 1010101001 1100111 111001 111011 10111 1101111 110000 11110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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