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Hardy Anapestic Thomas Ruined Maid Rhythm Trimeter Meter

Front Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid
Rhythm
Back Anapestic trimeter - anapestic meter is most often used for comic verse - this is a satire of Victorian social injustice as Hardy mocks the absurd commodification of chastity. 

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