Analysis of Her Reproach
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on!
Cold wisdom's words will ease thy track for thee;
Aye, go; cast off sweet ways, and leave me wan
To biting blasts that are intent on me.
But if thy object Fame's far summits be,
Whose inclines many a skeleton o'erlies
That missed both dream and substance, stop and see
How absence wears these cheeks and dims these eyes!
It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the kindliest will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111111 111111111 1111110111 1101110111 1111011101 1011001001 1111010101 1101110111 1101110011 110111111 0111011101 01001111111 010101111 0101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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