This is an analysis of The Bedridden Peasant To An Unknown God by Thomas Hardy.
Much wonder I--here long low-laid -
That this dead wall should be…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bcXc efef dada gXge haha bibi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011111 101110 01010101 101011 11110101 110111 01010111 100111 11111111 110101 01111110 111101 11010111 111101 11111111 111101 11111110 111111 11111111 110101 11111101 110101 11111101 110101 110111101 111111 11010101 111111 11111110 111111 11110101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
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