This is an analysis of The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy.

How do you know that the pilgrim track
Along the belting zodiac…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXdD ccXXeeffdD
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,
  • Metre: 111110101 01010101 110100101 011100101 100011101 110100101 1101101001 110011000 110011111 1111 11111101 10110111 010101000 01011101 11110101 11111101 10010101 11111111 11011111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

how, you, know

Anaphora

how

Epiphora

know