This is an analysis of The Respectable Burgher On "The Higher Criticism" by Thomas Hardy.
Since Reverend Doctors now declare
That clerks and people must prepare…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaaaXbXaabaXaXaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXaaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 110010101 11110101 01010100 01010101 01010101 11011101 010001001 110111010 110101100 01001111 11010101 110111110 110010101 110111100 11000101 11010101 11010101 1101101 10000101 11010101 11010111 01011101 10000101 10110101 1100010001 11011101 0101011 1110101 110010101 110011101 11111110 101101 11111101 11100101 11111011 111100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, that
Anaphora
to, and, that
