This is an analysis of Friends Beyond by Thomas Hardy.
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBa cbccb cdX ded efX XfX cfXX aXgX bdgd ghX hahXaBa
- Stanza lengths: 3,5,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,3,7,
- Metre: 101010101011111 1011111 101110101010111 10001101101101011 1 1110101 11111011101011 1 1010100011011101 0010101 001010101011100 111000101010101 1000001 101111100010101 10111111010101001 1100111 10111011111111100 1001111011111111010 110110101 11111110100011100 10101111011101111 1 1110110 1011101110101110 11111100101110101 10101110 1101111110101111 10 1101101010101010 1 1110101 111010100111111 1001011101011111 0110111 0010111000111100 101010101110111 1010101 111010101110101 101010101011111 1011111 101110101010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
and, may, ye, if
Anaphora
if
