This is an analysis of Rome At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley And Keats (1887) by Thomas Hardy.

Who, then, was Cestius,
   And what is he to me? -…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb Xcdc efef dada bgbg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110 110101 0111110010000 110111 110111 110110 111001111111 110100 110110 100101 111101010111 110001 100110 111100 111011011100 110101 1100101 110101 01110011100101 110101 1111111 111101 111111010101 101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24