This is an analysis of The Lacking Sense Scene.--A Sad-Coloured Landscape, Waddon Vale by Thomas Hardy.
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"O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XbXXX X XbcXdX X babbXX X XabeXbb a ebeff a XcbdaX
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,6,1,6,1,7,1,5,1,6,
- Metre: 1 1011101010101010 101110100110111 111101100101110 01010101010101 1010100100 1 1010101001101010 101001101110111 1101101101011 10 11011111010101 11011100 1 1010111010101010 1100010101011 1 100100110101110 01011101011101 1000100 1 1011101010101100 10111010011011 1 110111001100 100 111010001110101 1010101 1 1100010101001010 1010010100111111 1010101010100110 111110100010101 101101 1 1010101111101000 1111010111010 1 1111110010100010 010111000010111 1110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
her, she
