Analysis of Transformations
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Portion of this yew
Is a man my grandsire knew,
Bosomed here at its foot:
This branch may be his wife,
A ruddy human life
Now turned to a green shoot.
These grasses must be made
Of her who often prayed,
Last century, for repose;
And the fair girl long ago
Whom I often tried to know
May be entering this rose.
So, they are not underground,
But as nerves and veins abound
In the growths of upper air,
And they feel the sun and rain,
And the energy again
That made them what they were!
Scheme | AAXBBX CCDEED FFXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 101111 11111 111111 010101 111011 110111 101101 1100101 0011101 1110111 1110011 111110 1110101 0011101 0110101 0010001 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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