Analysis of She, To Him IV
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
THIS love puts all humanity from me;
I can but maledict her, pray her dead,
For giving love and getting love of thee--
Feeding a heart that else mine own had fed!
How much I love I know not, life not known,
Save as some unit I would add love by;
But this I know, my being is but thine own--
Fused from its separateness by ecstasy.
And thus I grasp thy amplitudes, of her
Ungrasped, though helped by nigh-regarding eyes;
Canst thou then hate me as an envier
Who see unrecked what I so dearly prize?
Believe me, Lost One, Love is lovelier
The more it shapes its moans in selfish-wise.
Scheme | ABAB CXCA DEDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010011 11110101 1101010111 1001111111 1111111111 1111011111 11111101111 11110001100 01111110 111110101 11111111 111111101 01111111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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