Analysis of A Death-Day Recalled

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



Beeny did not quiver,
Juliot grew not gray,
Thin Valency's river
Held its wonted way.
Bos seemed not to utter
Dimmest note of dirge,
Targan mouth a mutter
To its creamy surge.

Yet though these, unheeding,
Listless, passed the hour
Of her spirit's speeding,
She had, in her flower,
Sought and loved the places -
Much and often pined
For their lonely faces
When in towns confined.

Why did not Valency
In his purl deplore
One whose haunts were whence he
Drew his limpid store?
Why did Bos not thunder
Targan apprehend
Body and breath were sunder
Of their former friend?


Scheme ABABACAC DADAEFEF EGXGAHAH
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1111 1110 1111 111110 1111 11010 11101 1111 101010 101010 110010 101010 10101 111010 10101 1111 01101 111011 1111 111110 101 1001010 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 551
Words 103
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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