Analysis of The Master And The Leaves
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I
We are budding, master, budding,
We of your favourite tree;
March drought and April flooding
Arouse us merrily.
The stemlets brightly studding;
And yet you do not see.
II
We are fully woven for summer
In modes of limpest green,
The twitterer and the hummer
Here rest their rounds between,
While like a 'long-roll' drummer
The night-hawk thrills the treen.
III
We are turning yellow, master,
And next we are turning red,
And faster then and faster
Shall seek our rooty bed—
All wasted in disaster
The magic show we spread!
IV
'I mark your early going,
And that you'll soon be clay,
I have seen your summer showing
As in my youthful day;
But why I seem unknowing
Is too deep down to say.'
Scheme | ABCBCBC ADEDEDE ADFDFDF XBGBGBG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11101010 11111 1101010 011100 01101 011111 1 111010110 01111 010010 111101 1101110 011101 1 11101010 0111101 0101010 111011 1100010 010111 1 1111010 011111 11111010 101101 1111010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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