Analysis of Mad Judy
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
When the hamlet hailed a birth
Judy used to cry:
When she heard our christening mirth
She would kneel and sigh.
She was crazed, we knew, and we
Humoured her infirmity.
When the daughters and the sons
Gathered them to wed,
And we like-intending ones
Danced till dawn was red,
She would rock and mutter, "More
Comers to this stony shore!"
When old Headsman Death laid hands
On a babe or twain,
She would feast, and by her brands
Sing her songs again.
What she liked we let her do,
Judy was insane, we knew.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10111 111101001 11101 1111101 100100 1010001 10111 0110101 11111 1110101 1011101 1110111 10111 1110101 10101 1111101 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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