Analysis of At Moonrise And Onwards

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



I thought you a fire
On Heron-Plantation Hill,
Dealing out mischief the most dire
To the chattels of men of hire
There in their vill.

But by and by
You turned a yellow-green,
Like a large glow-worm in the sky;
And then I could descry
Your mood and mien.

How well I know
Your furtive feminine shape!
As if reluctantly you show
You nude of cloud, and but by favour throw
Aside its drape . . .

-How many a year
Have you kept pace with me,
Wan Woman of the waste up there,
Behind a hedge, or the bare
Bough of a tree!

No novelty are you,
O Lady of all my time,
Veering unbid into my view
Whether I near Death's mew,
Or Life's top cyme!


Scheme ABXAB CDCAD EFEEF XGHHG IXIIG
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 110101 10110011 10111110 1011 1101 110101 10111001 01111 1101 1111 1101001 11010011 111101111 0111 11001 111111 11010111 0101101 1101 110011 1101111 1010111 101111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 615
Words 127
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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