This is an analysis of The Death Of Regret by Thomas Hardy.

I opened my shutter at sunrise,
And looked at the hill hard by,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc dbeb eaaX ecdc efef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110110111 1110111 1110011011 1101101 110011010 11101011 1111110011 1101101 101010011 11011011 011101010 1010101 01000100110 11011101 1110111111 0011101 110111010 0011101 110110010 101011001 111011110 10101101 1011011110 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 29

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