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
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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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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