Analysis of Amabel
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I MARKED her ruined hues,
Her custom-straitened views,
And asked, "Can there indwell
My Amabel?"
I looked upon her gown,
Once rose, now earthen brown;
The change was like the knell
Of Amabel.
Her step's mechanic ways
Had lost the life of May's;
Her laugh, once sweet in swell,
Spoilt Amabel.
I mused: "Who sings the strain
I sang ere warmth did wane?
Who thinks its numbers spell
His Amabel?"--
Knowing that, though Love cease,
Love's race shows undecrease;
All find in dorp or dell
An Amabel.
--I felt that I could creep
To some housetop, and weep,
That Time the tyrant fell
Ruled Amabel!
I said (the while I sighed
That love like ours had died),
"Fond things I'll no more tell
To Amabel,
"But leave her to her fate,
And fling across the gate,
'Till the Last Trump, farewell,
O Amabel!'"
Scheme | AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB XABB FFBB GGBB HHBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110101 01011 01111 110 110101 111101 011101 110 010101 110111 011101 110 111101 111111 111101 110 101111 1111 110111 110 111111 11101 110101 110 110111 1111011 111111 110 110101 010101 10111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 944 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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