Analysis of To Outer Nature
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
SHOW thee as I thought thee
When I early sought thee,
Omen-scouting,
All undoubting
Love alone had wrought thee--
Wrought thee for my pleasure,
Planned thee as a measure
For expounding
And resounding
Glad things that men treasure.
O for but a moment
Of that old endowment--
Light to gaily
See thy daily
Irisèd embowment!
But such readorning
Time forbids with scorning--
Makes me see things
Cease to be things
They were in my morning.
Fad'st thou, glow-forsaken,
Darkness-overtaken!
Thy first sweetness,
Radiance, meetness,
None shall reawaken.
Why not sempiternal
Thou and I? Our vernal
Brightness keeping,
Time outleaping;
Passed the hodiernal!
Scheme | AABBA CCBBC DDAAD BBEEB FFXEF GGBBG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 111111 111011 1010 11 101111 111110 111010 1010 0010 111110 111010 111010 1110 1110 1011 111 10111 1111 1111 100110 1111010 10100 1110 1001 11010 111 1011010 1010 11 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 794 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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