This is an analysis of The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy.
I leant upon a coppice gate,
When Frost was spectre-gray,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbc bXXadbdb XeXXfgfg Xecehihi
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 110010101 111101 11011100 0100101 01011101 1101010 11111101 1111110 01110101 0100110 01010100 010101 01010111 110111 110010011 110011 11010101 011101 00110100 011000 1111111 011001 11010101 010101 11011100 010101 110101001 011101 11111101 010011 1111011 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the