This is an analysis of Faintheart In A Railway Train by Thomas Hardy.
At nine in the morning there passed a church,
At ten there passed me by the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXab bXbbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,
- Metre: 1100101101 11111101 11010111 110100111 1110111 0100101111 11011001110 11111011101 1011111010 1111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
at, i
Anaphora
at
