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"The Man He Killed" is constructed simply, with short meters, lilting rhythmns, and a colloquial manner of speech. The rhyme scheme also is simple: the first and third lines in each of the five stanzas rhyme, as do the second and fourth lines, but what is interesting about the form of this poem is the intent of the line length. Most lines of the poem are written in trimeter but the third line in every stanza is longer, written in tetrameter. The extended length of these third lines may mimic a deeper dramatic weight given to these lines. The poem is written as a dramatic monologue, a frequent technique of Hardy's. He creates a voice not his own to speak in his poems, and this is indicated by the quotation marks bracketing the poem.

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