Analysis of Song From Heine

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I scanned her picture dreaming,
   Till each dear line and hue
Was imaged, to my seeming,
   As if it lived anew.

Her lips began to borrow
   Their former wondrous smile;
Her fair eyes, faint with sorrow,
   Grew sparkling as erstwhile.

Such tears as often ran not
   Ran then, my love, for thee;
And O, believe I cannot
   That thou are lost to me!


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1101010 111101 111110 111101 010111 110101 0111110 11011 1111011 111111 0101110 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 357
Words 65
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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