Analysis of The Voice
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me,
But as at first, when our day was fair.
Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,
Standing as when I drew near to the town
Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness
Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness,
Heard no more again far or near?
Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward,
And the woman calling.
Scheme | AXAXBCBCDXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111111111 1011111110 111110111111 1111110111 111111111111 1011111101 111111111111 10100100111 1111001011 10001011111 1101001111 11101111 1110010 101110 1101101110 001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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