Analysis of At A Bridal
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity,
A dream of other offspring held my mind,
Compounded of us twain as Love designed;
Rare forms, that corporate now will never be!
Should I, too, wed as slave to Mode's decree,
And each thus found apart, of false desire,
A stolid line, whom no high aims will fire
As had fired ours could ever have mingled we;
And, grieved that lives so matched should miscompose,
Each mourn the double waste; and question dare
To the Great Dame whence incarnation flows,
Why those high-purposed children never were:
What will she answer? That she does not care
If the race all such sovereign types unknows.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110100 011101111 0101111101 11110011101 1111111101 01110111010 01011111110 1110101101101 01111111 1101010101 1011101101 111110100 1111011111 101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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