This is an analysis of The West-Of-Wessex Girl by Thomas Hardy.

A very West-of-Wessex girl,
As blithe as blithe could be,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbcX addeded affgfgf X
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,1,
  • Metre: 01010101 111110 111101 11110101 111111 11110111 010100 1101101101 010111 110101 11000101 110101 10010101 010001 11110101 111101 011111 11011101 001101 11110111 110001 1001011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

and