Analysis of A Week
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
On Monday night I closed my door,
And thought you were not as heretofore,
And little cared if we met no more.
I seemed on Tuesday night to trace
Something beyond mere commonplace
In your ideas, and heart, and face.
On Wednesday I did not opine
Your life would ever be one with mine,
Though if it were we should well combine.
On Thursday noon I liked you well,
And fondly felt that we must dwell
Not far apart, whatever befell.
On Friday it was with a thrill
In gazing towards your distant vill
I owned you were my dear one still.
I saw you wholly to my mind
On Saturday - even one who shrined
All that was best of womankind.
As wing-clipt sea-gull for the sea
On Sunday night I longed for thee,
Without whom life were waste to me!
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Metre | 11011111 01101101 010111111 11110111 1001110 010100101 11011101 111101111 111011110 1111111 01011111 11011001 11011101 010011101 11101111 11110111 110010111 111111 11111101 1111111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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