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.'


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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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Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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