Analysis of Faintheart In A Railway Train
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
At nine in the morning there passed a church,
At ten there passed me by the sea,
At twelve a town of smoke and smirch,
At two a forest of oak and birch,
And then, on a platform, she:
A radiant stranger, who saw not me.
I queried, 'Get out to her do I dare?'
But I kept my seat in my search for a plea,
And the wheels moved on. O could it but be
That I had alighted there!
Scheme | ABAAB BCBBC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 1100101101 11111101 11011101 110101101 011011 0100101111 1101110111 11111011101 0011111111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 370 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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