This is an analysis of San Sebastian by Thomas Hardy.
With Thoughts of Sergeant M---- (Pensioner), who died 185-
"WHY, Sergeant, stray on the Ivel Way,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aBcbc deXed fefef agggg hiaia hjhjh Xkgcg iffff kXcXc hlhlh dfXfk ahXha dfafa aBcbX
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 010101100111 1010110101 111110101 010110101 1110000101 1110101 10100101101 1110010101 10101010100 101110011 101000101 101001010101 1011111111 1100100111 1110100101 11010 10011110111 01011001001 11101100101 1101101111 111111 10101110101 0101010101 110111101 111001101001 1111111 10100100101 1111100101 11011101 1010110101 1010101 100100100100 110101010 1010110101 01111101 0110111 101001111011 11111111 1111110101 1100101101 1101100 10111011110 1100101100 11001001001 11010011100 1110101 10010100111 111100101 111001000101 1110110111 0100111 1001110101 10100101101 11011101 110010101 111110 110010101 111010111 001110100 1101111100 00100111 10011100111 1111100101 1110111101 11010111101 111111 10110110101 111110101 1011101101 11101010101 111101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 71
Repeated words/phrases
her, i
Anaphora
i
