This is an analysis of In A Museum by Thomas Hardy.

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Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abab X cbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,
  • Metre: 1 1010010011101 110010111110 1010011111 11001100110 1 1010110100101 110110110010 1100101001111 00110100101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 10