This is an analysis of The King's Experiment by Thomas Hardy.
It was a wet wan hour in spring,
And Nature met King Doom beside a lane,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXcX deXX XaXa bebX fXff gdgX hbhX ifif fffX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101110001 1101110101 0111110100 110101 101011111 111001110111 1111111001 1111010 100010001 11110010101 10101010100 1111010 11010110 11010100101 1101010111 1000101 1100100101 1110010101 1101011111 1100010 11011111 111000111000 10111000111 11100101 101111001 0101010101 1101010001 111101 101111100 0101010011 0111010100 110101 101011101 1011011101 1111110101 110101 101010111 1101111101 101100111001 1001110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
her, and
Anaphora
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