This is an analysis of Winter In Durnover Field by Thomas Hardy.

Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about thereon,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXX X bXbabbaabX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,1,10,
  • Metre: 101101111001011 1001010111100101 1100100101101110 11 10 101011111 110110010 1011010101 100111 111 1010011101 110101011 1001 11111 110110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15