Analysis of Weathers

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly;
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,
And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,'
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
And citizens dream of the south and west,
And so do I.

This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.


Scheme aBabccccB dBdbefefB
Poetic Form
Metre 11010011 0111 1101011 0101 00101100111 011111011 01111101 0100110101 0111 110100101 0111 1110101 0101 01111111 01110 011111001 010100101 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 109
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 9
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 223
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Modified on May 04, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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