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.


Scheme ABAB CDCD CECECE
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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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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