Analysis of Exeunt Omnes

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



Everybody else, then, going,
And I still left where the fair was?…
Much have I seen of neighbour loungers
Making a lusty showing,
Each now past all knowing.

There is an air of blankness
In the street and the littered spaces;
Thoroughfare, steeple, bridge and highway
Wizen themselves to lankness;
Kennels dribble dankness.

Folk all fade. And whither,
As I wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night-fog
Whence they entered hither.
Soon one more goes thither!


Scheme ABBAA BXXBB CBXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110 01111011 1111111 1001010 111110 111111 001001010 1010101 100111 10101 111010 111011011 0101001011 111010 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 485
Words 87
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Thomas Hardy

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