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 AeeafXA agggaXXfXA
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,10,
- Metre: 1101 100111011 11011111 1101 11010101 1101001010 1101 1101 11110111 10110101 0110 110011111 011111000 1101 1101 101111111 11011101 1111 11110100 110100100 1101 10011 111101001 01110101 01010101 1100 11110101 11110100 1111 11010 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
we
Anaphora
i, we
Epiphora
love

