Analysis of The Walk
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
You did not walk with me
Of late to the hill-top tree
As in earlier days,
By the gated ways:
You were weak and lame,
So you never came,
And I went alone, and I did not mind,
Not thinking of you as left behind.
I walked up there to-day
Just in the former way:
Surveyed around
The familiar ground
By myself again:
What difference, then?
Only that underlying sense
Of the look of a room on returning thence.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1110111 101001 10101 10101 11101 0110101111 110111101 111111 100101 0101 00101 1101 11001 1010101 10110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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