Analysis of Winter in Durnover Field
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about thereon,
and wistfully eyeing the surface. Wind keen from north-east: sky a
dull grey.
Rook.--Throughout the field I find no grain;
The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!
Starling.--Aye: patient pecking now is vain
Throughout the field, I find . . .
Rook.--No grain!
Pigeon.--Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial thawings loose the lorn land
Throughout the field.
Rook.--I find no grain:
The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111001110 1011010111100101 0100100101111110 11 101011111 0101101 1011010111 010111 111 101111111 11011011 0101 11111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 10 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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