This is an analysis of Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy.

Here by the moorway you returned,
And saw the borough lights ahead…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabb cdcddX ceceff bgbgaX ahahii
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 11010101 11011101 111111000 0000101001 11100101101 110011111 11111101 111101001 1010011111 0100001001 11000111001 111110000 111011111 1111111111 1010011101 10111001001 1110100111 111101101 1111111111 110111011 111111011 1101111111 1110111111 1101101111 1101111011 1111110101 1100101101 1111001001 101010101 1111101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

you, i