This is an analysis of I Need Not Go by Thomas Hardy.

I need not go
Through sleet and snow…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccX XddeXXXe bbbfgggfXbbbabbba
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
  • Metre: 1111 1111 0111 1111 10111 11101 11101 0100 11100 0111 1111 1111 0101 1101 0111 11101 1011 1111 1101 0101 11010 01010 01110 1011 11111 11011 11111 1111 11111 11011 10111 11001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

me

Anaphora

she, new

Epiphora

me