Analysis of When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes!
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 010101 011101 01111 111111 010101 11111 111101 110101 11010101 11111 111101 111111 110011 111101 1100101 111111 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 509 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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