This is an analysis of "I Said To Love" by Thomas Hardy.
I said to Love,
"It is not now as in old days…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacXA DccXbXD AeeaXXA affaXXXA
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,8,
- Metre: 1101 100111011 11011111 1101 11010101 1101001010 1101 1101 11110111 10110101 1110 110011111 011111000 1101 1101 101111111 11011101 1111 11110100 110100100 1101 10011 11111101 01010101 1100 11110101 11110100 111111010 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
we
Anaphora
i, we
Epiphora
love
