Analysis of The Roman Road
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair
Across the heath. And thoughtful men
Contrast its days of Now and Then,
And delve, and measure, and compare;
Visioning on the vacant air
Helmeted legionnaires, who proudly rear
The Eagle, as they pace again
The Roman Road.
But no tall brass-helmeted legionnaire
Haunts it for me. Uprises there
A mother's form upon my ken,
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We walked that ancient thoroughfare,
The Roman Road.
Scheme | aabba axbC aabbaC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011101 10110101 01010101 10111101 01010001 110101 100101101 01011101 0101 111110010 111111 01010111 10110111 1111010 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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