Analysis of Welcome Home
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
To my native place
Bent upon returning,
Bosom all day burning
To be where my race
Well were known, 'twas much with me
There to dwell in amity.
Folk had sought their beds,
But I hailed: to view me
Under the moon, out to me
Several pushed their heads,
And to each I told my name,
Plans, and that therefrom I came.
'Did you? . . . Ah, 'tis true
I once heard, back a long time,
Here had spent his young time,
Some such man as you . . .
Good-night.' The casement closed again,
And I was left in the frosty lane.
Scheme | ABBACC DCCDEE FGGFXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 101010 101110 11111 1011111 1110100 11111 111111 1001111 10111 0111111 101111 11111 1111011 111111 11111 1101101 011100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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