Analysis of [Greek Title]
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee,
O Willer masked and dumb!
Who makest Life become, -
As though by labouring all-unknowingly,
Like one whom reveries numb.
How much of consciousness informs Thy will
Thy biddings, as if blind,
Of death-inducing kind,
Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill
But moments in Thy mind.
Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways
Thy ripening rule transcends;
That listless effort tends
To grow percipient with advance of days,
And with percipience mends.
For, in unwonted purlieus, far and nigh,
At whiles or short or long,
May be discerned a wrong
Dying as of self-slaughter; whereat I
Would raise my voice in song.
Scheme | ABBAB CDDCD EFFEE GHHGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 11111111 110101 11101 111110100 1111001 1111000111 11111 110101 11110100111 110011 0111010101 1100101 110101 11010010111 0111 1011101 111111 110101 101111011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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