This is an analysis of Jezreel by Thomas Hardy.

On Its Seizure By The English Under Allenby, September 1918
Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day-…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aXaX bcbc XXdXd cdXX X
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,5,4,1,
  • Metre: 10101010101000101 011100001011001 11100110101001 111101011001001 01101111011110 111101011011001 11011011011011 111110001001001 011011101011001 101101101101 100 101001001011101 101101011111001 111111011101011 11001001001101 0011011011011011 100111111111010 11111011110010 01011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

of, her