Analysis of Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined -- just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around:
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.
Young Hodge the drummer never knew --
Fresh from his Wessex home --
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1111 111011 110101 0100101 110111 11010101 111101 0101011 010101 0111101 110101 11011011 111101 11010101 111101 0110101 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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