Analysis of Epeisodia
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Past the hills that peep
Where the leaze is smiling,
On and on beguiling
Crisply-cropping sheep;
Under boughs of brushwood
Linking tree and tree
In a shade of lushwood,
There caressed we!
Hemmed by city walls
That outshut the sunlight,
In a foggy dun light,
Where the footstep falls
With a pit-pat wearisome
In its cadency
On the flagstones drearisome
There pressed we!
Where in wild-winged crowds
Blown birds show their whiteness
Up against the lightness
Of the clammy clouds;
By the random river
Pushing to the sea,
Under bents that quiver
There rest we.
Scheme | ABBACDCD ECCEFEFD GHHGIDID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 101110 101010 10101 10111 10101 00111 1011 11101 1101 001011 1011 1011100 011 1011 111 10111 111110 101010 10101 101010 10101 101110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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