Analysis of The Woman In The Rye
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
'Why do you stand in the dripping rye,
Cold-lipped, unconscious, wet to the knee,
When there are firesides near?' said I.
'I told him I wished him dead,' said she.
'Yea, cried it in my haste to one
Whom I had loved, whom I well loved still;
And die he did. And I hate the sun,
And stand here lonely, aching, chill;
'Stand waiting, waiting under skies
That blow reproach, the while I see
The rooks sheer off to where he lies
Wrapt in a peace withheld from me.'
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EBEB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111100101 11101101 1111111 111111111 11101111 111111111 011101101 01110101 11010101 11010111 01111111 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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