This is an analysis of She, To Him, I by Thomas Hardy.

When you shall see me lined by tool of Time,
My lauded beauties carried off from me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeaeae
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1111111101 1101010101 1111011011 1101010111 1011010101 1101110111 0101101101 1111111101 01001011101 1101110101 1010110101 1111011101 0111010101 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

my