This is an analysis of The Self-Unseeing by Thomas Hardy.

Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100101 1011011 110101 101110 111001 1000010 11111 10010110 1111001 1001011 1011001 1101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12