This is an analysis of Her Dilemma by Thomas Hardy.

THE two were silent in a sunless church,
Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cccc XcXc dbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0101000101 11001010101 1101010101 11010111000 1001010101 1111111101 1111011101 101111010101 11110010110010 1101110101 11110101010 1101000101 1011110101 11010011101 0101011111 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

he, her

Anaphora

and