This is an analysis of My Cicely by Thomas Hardy.

"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder,
Was faint of my joyance,…

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  • Stanzas: 31
  • Lines: 124

Repeated words/phrases

and, her

Anaphora

the, and, she, her, that

Anadiplosis

she