The Going Of The Battery Wives. (Lament) by Thomas Hardy: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Going Of The Battery Wives. (Lament) that begins with:

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O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough - ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xaba X XcdX X ceXe X dfbf a ghbh a cigi X fjgj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101101101101 1011011010 101100101100 1011001011 1 111100111000 11010111110 110100101100 11010110110 1 110101101101 10111100001 1111001001 1101101001 1 110100100100 1111001111 111100001100 1011011011 1 101101101101 1111011001 111110110110 1011001011 1 1111000011101 11110101011 110111110111 1011001111 1 110101101101 1001111111 101101110101 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; enough, to, us are repeated.

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