This is an analysis of The To-Be-Forgotten by Thomas Hardy.
I
I heard a small sad sound,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXX XccXd XXaXa Xeeff aaagg aaadd XhhaX XeeXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1 110111 1101010101 10001101110110 1101100 1 1011101 1111010101 10010100011 1101001 1 1011100 1101110111 1111011110 010101 1 1011101 1111110101 1001110101 000101 1 111111 1101011111 1101110100 011111 1 1011000 110011001001 1111111001 110111 1 1010111 01011101001 10011100111 111101 1 101101 1111010001 1101111111 1100110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
i, we, things
Anaphora
i, they
Anadiplosis
i
