Analysis of Beeny Cliff
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea,
And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free-
The woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me.
I I
The pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far away
In a nether sky, engrossed in saying their ceaseless babbling say,
As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned March day.
III
A little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain,
And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain,
And then the sun burst out again, and purples prinked the main.
IV
-Still in all its chasmal beauty bulks old Beeny to the sky,
And shall she and I not go there once again now March is nigh,
And the sweet things said in that March say anew there by and by?
V
What if still in chasmal beauty looms that wild weird western shore,
The woman now is-elsewhere-whom the ambling pony bore,
And nor knows nor cares for Beeny, and will laugh there nevermore.
Scheme | ABBB ACCC ADDD XAAA BEEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 1 10100010011100101 001010101111101 01011110110011 11 01110110011101 00101010101101001 111110001111111 1 0101111011111 00010111010111 01011101010101 1 1011110111101 011011111011111 001110111011101 1 11101101111101 0101111010011 0111111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 957 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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