This is an analysis of Had You Wept by Thomas Hardy.
Had you wept; had you but neared me with a frail uncertain ray,
Dewy as the face of the dawn, in your large and luminous eye,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc bdbdefef
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 111111110010101 1010100101111001 111111010101111 10101001110110101 11011010111001110 01110101011111 11110111101010110 01111111011101 01110010011001 010011011101111 111001011111010111 110101011111101 1111101111101010 10111111011111 111111111111010 11110101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
had, you, i, not
Anaphora
the
