This is an analysis of Shelley's Skylark. by Thomas Hardy.

Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede fefe cbcb egeg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101 010100101 110100100 010010101 010011101 110101100 1010110101 111010100 10111111 010101011 110101111 110110101 100100111 100100101 100100101 00110101111 11010111 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 110100101 100100101 01010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, maybe, in, it

Anaphora

and, maybe