This is an analysis of The Tree: An Old Man's Story by Thomas Hardy.
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Its roots are bristling in the air…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccaa X ddeeaa X ffggah X ccaaaX a ffffhX a XXccaX X XfaaaX X iiffaa X eeffaX X bbXXaa
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Metre: 1 011100001 11111101 01110111 10111101 1101 111101 1 01111101 01111001 111100101 11010101 1101 101111 1 11111110 11111111 01110111 11110001 1101 101100 1 101010101 11110101 111101111 101101101 1101 100110 1 101010101 01011101 11011111 01110101 1110 1111110 1 11010101 11111100 011100111 01110101 101011 1011100 1 101011111 01111111 11110111 11011111 1101 111101 1 101111101 01110001 11111101 11010001 1111 110101 1 101111111 11111110 11010101 11011111 1101 11001010 1 10110101 11110111 110011111 11110111 1011 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
she, but
Anadiplosis
i
