Analysis of The Jubilee Of A Magazine:(To The Editor)
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Yes; your up-dated modern page -
All flower-fresh, as it appears -
Can claim a time-tried lineage,
That reaches backward fifty years
(Which, if but short for sleepy squires,
Is much in magazines' careers).
- Here, on your cover, never tires
The sower, reaper, thresher, while
As through the seasons of our sires
Each wills to work in ancient style
With seedlip, sickle, share and flail,
Though modes have since moved many a mile!
The steel-roped plough now rips the vale,
With cog and tooth the sheaves are won,
Wired wheels druin out the wheat like hail;
If we ask, what has been done
To unify the mortal lot
Since your bright leaves first saw the sun,
Beyond mechanic furtherance - what
Advance can rightness, candour, claim?
Truth bends abashed, and answers not.
Despite your volumes' gentle aim
To straighten visions wry and wrong,
Events jar onward much the same!
- Had custom tended to prolong.
As on your golden page engrained,
Old processes of blade and prong,
And best invention been retained
For high crusades to lessen tears
Throughout the race, the world had gained!…
But too much, this, for fifty years.
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Metre | 11110101 11011101 11011100 11010101 111111010 1101001 111101010 01010101 110101101 11110101 1110101 111111001 01111101 11010111 101110111 1111111 1100101 11111101 010101001 0111011 11010101 01110101 11010101 01110101 11010101 1111011 11001101 01010101 11011101 01010111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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