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!


Scheme AAA BBB CCC DDD EDE FFF GGG
Poetic Form
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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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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