Analysis of Revulsion
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter
Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss,
Out of the night there looms a sense 'twere better
To fail obtaining whom one fails to miss.
For winning love we win the risk of losing,
And losing love is as one's life were riven;
It cuts like contumely and keen ill-using
To cede what was superfluously given.
Let me then feel no more the fateful thrilling
That devastates the love-worn wooer's frame,
The hot ado of fevered hopes, the chilling
That agonizes disappointed aim!
So may I live no junctive law fulfilling,
And my heart's table bear no woman's name.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101110 1101110101 11011101110 1101011111 11011101110 01011111010 111101110 1111110 11111101010 1101111 01011101010 11000101 1111111010 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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