This is an analysis of Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy.
It was your way, my dear,
To be gone without a word…
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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