Analysis of Going And Staying
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
The moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going.
Seasons of blankness as of snow,
The silent bleed of a world decaying,
The moan of multitudes in woe,
These were the things we wished would go;
But they were staying.
Then we looked closelier at Time,
And saw his ghostly arms revolving
To sweep off woeful things with prime,
Things sinister with things sublime
Alike dissolving.
Scheme | ABAAB CBCCB DBDDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 010101110 110111 10011111 11010 1011111 0101101010 0111001 10011111 11010 111111 011101010 11110111 11001101 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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