Analysis of A Circular
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
As 'legal representative'
I read a missive not my own,
On new designs the senders give
For clothes, in tints as shown.
Here figure blouses, gowns for tea,
And presentation-trains of state,
Charming ball-dresses, millinery,
Warranted up to date.
And this gay-pictured, spring-time shout
Of Fashion, hails what lady proud?
Her who before last year was out
Was costumed in a shroud.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1100100 11010111 11010101 110111 11010111 0010111 101101 100111 01110111 11011101 01011111 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 376 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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