This is an analysis of Middle-Age Enthusiasms by Thomas Hardy.

To M. H.
WE passed where flag and flower…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcc dedeXX fdfdXX dcdXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 011 1111110 100101 11100010 0101101 11011111 11111111 111111 101101 110111 1110101 1111110000 11011101 1100111 101101 010101 1011101 11101111100 11010111 101010011 1010111 111111 01110100 100111000101 1101011100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

and, we

Anaphora

we