Analysis of Middle-Age Enthusiasms
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
To M. H.
WE passed where flag and flower
Signalled a jocund throng;
We said: "Go to, the hour
Is apt!"--and joined the song;
And, kindling, laughed at life and care,
Although we knew no laugh lay there.
We walked where shy birds stood
Watching us, wonder-dumb;
Their friendship met our mood;
We cried: "We'll often come:
We'll come morn, noon, eve, everywhen!"
--We doubted we should come again.
We joyed to see strange sheens
Leap from quaint leaves in shade;
A secret light of greens
They'd for their pleasure made.
We said: "We'll set such sorts as these!"
--We knew with night the wish would cease.
"So sweet the place," we said,
"Its tacit tales so dear,
Our thoughts, when breath has sped,
Will meet and mingle here!"...
"Words!" mused we. "Passed the mortal door,
Our thoughts will reach this nook no more."
Scheme | X ABABCC XDXDEE FGFGXX HXHXII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1111010 10011 1111010 110101 01011101 1111111 111111 101101 1101101 111101 111111 11011101 111111 111101 010111 111101 11111111 11110111 110111 110111 1011111 110101 11110101 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 966 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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