Analysis of We Are Getting to the End
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
We are getting to the end of visioning
The impossible within this universe,
Such as that better whiles may follow worse,
And that our race may mend by reasoning.
We know that even as larks in cages sing
Unthoughtful of deliverance from the curse
That holds them lifelong in a latticed hearse,
We ply spasmodically our pleasuring.
And that when nations set them to lay waste
Their neighbours' heritage by foot and horse,
And hack their pleasant plains in festering seams,
They may again, - not warily, or from taste,
But tickled mad by some demonic force. -
Yes. We are getting to the end of dreams!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111 0010001110 1111011101 01101111100 11110110101 110100101 111110011 110100101 0111011111 111001101 01110101001 11011100111 1101110101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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