This is an analysis of To A Lady by Thomas Hardy.

Offended by a Book of the Writer's
NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bccd beed adaaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 0101010010 1111100110 1001110101 1111011101 1111010101 10110011100 1101110101 11101101001 0111111101 1001111111 0111010111 1111010101 1110110101 1101110100 1110100110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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