This is an analysis of The Sleep-Worker by Thomas Hardy.
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see -
As one who, held in trance, has laboured long…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbc abbc ded ffe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 1111110111 11110111001 1101110001 0111110100 0111010111 1111010101 1100010111 11001011100 1111111101 1111000111 1111100101 1101011101 1111010001 1100010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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