This is an analysis of The Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy.
Under a daisied bank
There stands a rich red ruminating cow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX fgfg dcdXXffff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 100101 1101110001 110101 0101010101 1100101 10011011001 110111 0101010101 111101 0101010100 111100 1101010101 110101 1101010101 101101 11001010101 110111 11001010111 110001 010111010 111111 0111111101 111101 0111011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
the
Anadiplosis
she
