Analysis of In The Old Theatre, Fiesole.
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline
Where Rome and dim Etruria interjoin,
Till came a child who showed an ancient coin
That bore the image of a Constantine.
She lightly passed; nor did she once opine
How, better than all books, she had raised for me
In swift perspective Europe's history
Through the vast years of Caesar's sceptred line.
For in my distant plot of English loam
'Twas but to delve, and straightway there to find
Coins of like impress. As with one half blind
Whom common simples cure, her act flashed home
In that mute moment to my opened mind
The power, the pride, the reach of perished Rome.
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Metre | 1101011101 110111 1101111101 110101010 1101111101 11011111111 0101010100 101111011 1011011101 111101111 1110111111 110110111 0111011101 01001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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