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.


Scheme AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH
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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Thomas Hardy

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