This is an analysis of The Burghers by Thomas Hardy.
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest,
And still I mused on that Thing imminent:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa XbX Xcb cdX deX eff faX aaX aba Xgb Xfg Xge ghX hah abX biX iXX heh fje jXj kfk fXf gXg
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 0111010101 1111111100 1111011001 0101111100 1111111101 1101010110 1010101011100 1101101111 1011110101 101010101001 1101010111 0110110000100 1101110101 11011001100 11010111010 11011010111 11100110101 01001010100 1111011101 11010101011 1001111000 1101111111 1101010011 1111010100 11011110101 11111101011 1111110111 0111011000 0101110011 1111011101 1111011100 1001010011 01100001101 1111111001 1011100101 11110101011 10111001111 1101000101 110011110110 1011000101 1101110111 0101101001 0101111111 0101001111 0100111110 110111100011 10101011011 11110111010 10101001110101 1101011110 11010101110 1111110101 0101110111 01011101001 1101111100 1100010101 1101000101 10110011001 1110010010100 1011110101 1111010111 1111011001 0101110101 1010101110101 11010111010 1011100100111 01111011111 110111110000 1010011100010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 23
- Lines: 69
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, her
Anaphora
and