This is an analysis of The Supplanter: A Tale by Thomas Hardy.

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He bends his travel-tarnished feet…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a baCACA X bdedeX X cfgfgX X XbbXbX a hfhfhX a hecece X hhdhdX X hfhXhX X fbibiX g fhchcX a jkbkbk X jaCACA X XbbbXb X kababX X bfbfbX X bceXec
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
  • Metre: 1 11010101 111101 01101111 100101 01101101 100101 1 101011111 110101 11110101 110111 11111111 1101010 1 11000101 110111 11010111 1101001 11010101 1110010 1 11111101 111111 01000111 1101010 01000110 1101010 1 11011100 111111 101110111 101101 11110101 1101000 1 11011101 110101 01010101 110101 10010001 110101 1 101010101 111101 11011101 111101 11010001 1101110 1 101010101 110001 01110101 10111100 101010101 11111100 1 1011100101 100001 1101010111 110111 11011101 1111100 1 01000111 110101 10111110011 1010101 11000101 1111010 1 11011101 1011001 11010001 101101 01010101 110101 1 011101001 101101 01101111 100101 01101101 100101 1 11111010 111101 11010111 11001001 11010101 110111 1 101010101 110101 11110111 111111 10010101 110100 1 101111101 111111 11110111 111101 11111101 1111110 1 11100101 10111011 101111101 11010000 11000101 110011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 33
  • Lines: 113

Repeated words/phrases

and, you, my

Anaphora

the