Analysis of Convergence Of The Twain
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls -- grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: 'What does this vaingloriousness down here?'. . .
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate
For her -- so gaily great --
A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed to be:
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history.
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one August event,
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said 'Now!' And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Scheme | AAA BBA CDD EEE FFX GGG HHH III AAA CDC XXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010101 1110100 001111101101 1101010 10110 110101110101 100101 110100 01110111010 100101 1101001 11111010101 111101 110101 010111111 111100 110111 010011101010 0101001 101101 0111101100100 010111 010101 0100101010101 1001111 110111 0100101110100 111101 110100 110111111001 1010101 110111 001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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