Analysis of The Moor
Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962
The world's gone forward to its latest fair
And dropt an old man done with by the way,
To sit alone among the bats and stare
At miles and miles and miles of moorland bare
Lit only with last shreds of dying day.
Not all the world, not all the world's gone by:
Old man, you're like to meet one traveller still,
A journeyman well kenned for courtesy
To all that walk at odds with life and limb;
If this be he now riding up the hill
Maybe he'll stop and take you up with him . . .
'But thou art Death?' 'Of Heavenly Seraphim
None else to seek thee out and bid thee come.'
'I only care that thou art come from Him,
Unbody me - I'm tired - and get me home.'
Scheme | ABAABCDEFDFFGFH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111011101 0111111101 1101010101 110101111 1101111101 1101110111 11111111001 010111100 1111111101 1111110101 1011011111 111111001 1111110111 1101111111 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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