This is an analysis of The Tenant-For-Life by Thomas Hardy.
The sun said, watching my watering-pot
"Some morn you'll pass away;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc adad aeae cXcX bXbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0111011001 1011101 110111111 110011 101111111 110111 11010101 111101 100110101 1101101 1101110100 1011011 1011111111 111101 11110110001 1101001 101111111 111111 11011101 110111 101010111 101111 11011111 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
