This is an analysis of Embarcation (Southampton Docks: October, 1899) by Thomas Hardy.
Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands,
And Cerdic with his Saxons entered in,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba accadeed ff
- Stanza lengths: 4,8,2,
- Metre: 1110010101 1100010100 1101010101 0101010101 1001011101 0100011101 1011011111 1101110101 10110101101 1111110101 0111010000 11000011100 1101011111 1011111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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