Analysis of A Spot

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



In years defaced and lost,
   Two sat here, transport-tossed,
   Lit by a living love
The wilted world knew nothing of:
   Scared momently
   By gaingivings,
   Then hoping things
   That could not be.

Of love and us no trace
   Abides upon the place;
   The sun and shadows wheel,
Season and season sereward steal;
   Foul days and fair
   Here, too, prevail,
   And gust and gale
   As everywhere.

But lonely shepherd souls
   Who bask amid these knolls
   May catch a faery sound
On sleepy noontides from the ground:
   "O not again
   Till Earth outwears
   Shall love like theirs
   Suffuse this glen!"


Scheme AABBCDDX DDCCECCE DDFFGDDG
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 111011 110101 01011101 11 11 1101 1111 110111 010101 01011 1001011 1101 1101 0101 110 110101 110111 11011 1101101 1101 111 1111 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 621
Words 100
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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