This is an analysis of Night In The Old Home by Thomas Hardy.
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast,
And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eXeX dXdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101010100101 1111111010101 10111001011011 1101011011101 1111001011010 11110011010100 011001011110 1001001010100 1101110011001 0111011111100 1100101011001 11111010110100101 111001001101011 10110101101101100 10101101011011 1101101001101100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, '
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
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