Analysis of In Vision I Roamed
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament,
So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan,
As though with an awed sense of such ostent;
And as I thought my spirit ranged on and on
In footless traverse through ghast heights of sky,
To the last chambers of the monstrous Dome,
Where stars the brightest here to darkness die:
Then, any spot on our own Earth seemed Home!
And the sick grief that you were far away
Grew pleasant thankfulness that you were near,
Who might have been, set on some outstep sphere,
Less than a Want to me, as day by day
I lived unware, uncaring all that lay
Locked in that Universe taciturn and drear.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110101 110110111 111111111 01111101101 011011111 1011010101 1101011101 11011101111 0011110101 11011101 111111111 1101111111 111010111 101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 3 |
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) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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