This is an analysis of The Selfsame Song by Thomas Hardy.
A bird sings the selfsame song,
With never a fault in its flow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110101 01001001 11100111 1001 0101001 01011001 1111111 01001 1010101 1100101 1101111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
a
Anadiplosis
long