This is an analysis of Tess's Lament by Thomas Hardy.
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I would that folk forgot me quite,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbbcdddc X eeefbbba X cccghhXg X ddddafad a iiicjjjc a bbbXbbba
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Metre: 1 11110111 1011 11111101 111101 10010111 01110111 11010111 111111 1 11011111 1111 11111111 111100 11010101 11100111 11110111 110101 1 11111111 1111 010110111 110101 111111010 111101110 110101110 110111 1 10111001 1001 11110101 111111 10010111 11101100 11111111 110101 1 11111111 1111 1010010111 110101 11011111 10111111 111111001 111111 1 01110100 1100 11011111 11111 111100001 110010011 11001101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
i, to, and, me, who, it, we, my
Anaphora
i, and
Epiphora
quite, long, gone, all, wed, it
Anadiplosis
i
