This is an analysis of Fragment by Thomas Hardy.
At last I entered a long dark gallery,
Catacomb-lined; and ranged at the side…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdcb deedX dXXdeeaff adXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,9,4,
- Metre: 11110011100 101111101 0010010111 11010100111 11010111 10110100101 11110111 10010011 1011101111011 1011001111 1101101001 101101101111 11010110110 10110101 101111010111010 001111110 101101 1011110101 0010100011 01110100 0111111001 01010101 1011110100 111101011 110101110 001110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
waiting, know, to, it, he
Anaphora
what, to
Anadiplosis
it
