Analysis of Her Song

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I sang that song on Sunday,
To witch an idle while,
I sang that song on Monday,
As fittest to beguile;
I sang it as the year outwore,
And the new slid in;
I thought not what might shape before
Another would begin.

I sang that song in summer,
All unforeknowingly,
To him as a new-comer
From regions strange to me:
I sang it when in afteryears
The shades stretched out,
And paths were faint; and flocking fears
Brought cup-eyed care and doubt.

Sings he that song on Sundays
In some dim land afar,
On Saturdays, or Mondays,
As when the evening star
Glimpsed in upon his bending face
And my hanging hair,
And time untouched me with a trace
Of soul-smart or despair?


Scheme XABACDCD CACBEFEF ECECECEC
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111101 1111110 110101 1111011 00110 11111101 010101 1111010 11 1110110 110111 111101 0111 01010101 111101 111111 011101 1100110 110101 10011101 01101 01011101 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 646
Words 126
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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