This is an analysis of The Going Of The Battery [wive's Lament November 2nd 1899] by Thomas Hardy.
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O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xaba X XcdX X ceXe X dfbf a ghbh a cigi X fjgj
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Metre: 1 101101101101 1011011010 101100101100 1011001011 1 111100111000 11010111110 110100101100 11010110110 1 110101101101 10111100001 1111001001 1101101001 1 110100100100 1111001111 111100001100 1011011011 1 101101101101 1111011001 111110110110 1011001011 1 111100011101 1111011011 110111110111 1011001111 1 110101101101 1001111111 101101110101 1101111011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
enough, to, us
