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 |
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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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