This is an analysis of "How Great My Grief" (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy.
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbaAabAb
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 11111111 110111011 10101101 11111111 110011101 110101011 11111111 110111011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
my, how
Anaphora
nor
