She, To Him, I by Thomas Hardy: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem She, To Him, I that begins with:

When you shall see me lined by tool of Time,
My lauded beauties carried off from me, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeaeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111111101 1101010101 1111011011 1101010111 1011010101 1101110111 0101101101 1111111101 01001011101 1101110101 1010110101 1111011101 0111010101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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