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 |
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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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