This is an analysis of The Roman Road by Thomas Hardy.
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,11,
- Metre: 01011111 10110101 01011101 10010111 11110101 10010101 1001011101 01011101 0101 1111100101 10111001 01010111 10110111 11110101 0101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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