This is an analysis of Satires Of Circumstance In Fifteen Glimpses Viii: In The St by Thomas Hardy.

He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair
Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXaXbcbXcXddXeefgfg
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 11011101001 1011100101 010010100 111111111 1110111100 1011111111 111010100 01110001 010010011 11110101 11001010111 100100001 100100011000 111111101 01110101 1111110010 11011101 100100111 110011001 00110011 11110111 11110011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

i, to, and

Anaphora

i, of, and