This is an analysis of The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy.
They hail me as one living,
But don't they know…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdad aeXe fghg dcae aifi XcXc dhhh Xhah XXab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111110 1111 1111010 10011 11101111 01001 0111010 1011 1101010 100110 1111100 01110 1111010 1101 1101011 1001 01011110 0111 0101010 01110 11110010 0101 0111110 0101 1111110 1011 1111010 1111 1111110 0101 10011111 1101 1011110 1101 1100011 1101 1001110 0111 0101010 1111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
a, not
