This is an analysis of Lines by Thomas Hardy.
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a
performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's Holiday Fund for City Children.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xa bbcc ddeeccbb dXffaagdaabb hXddgg aahh bbbXcc
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,8,12,6,4,6,
- Metre: 101110101010100011110 01010101010101111010 01110100111 01011100101 1101110111 0111010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101011100 1001000101 0101110001 11010010101 0101110101 11001110101 1111101110 01001011000 1101010111 1101001101 1100010101 11001010101 1111010100 1101111001 1101101011 1110010101 110100101001 1001010111 1001011101 10011101010100 10000110111 1011110111 1111001100 1100010100 11010010101 0101010101 10110111101 11000111101 1111101101 01111101110 1111010101 1011010101 1111110101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Anaphora
that, and
