This is an analysis of Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy.

It was your way, my dear,
To be gone without a word…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccb acccc aXddX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 011111 0010101 110111 1111100 00111101 11101001 1101101 10110101 0111101 1101101 1111101 1100111 110101 110100 1101110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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