Analysis of Her Secret
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
That love's dull smart distressed my heart
He shrewdly learnt to see,
But that I was in love with a dead man
Never suspected he.
He searched for the trace of a pictured face,
He watched each missive come,
And a note that seemed like a love-line
Made him look frozen and glum.
He dogged my feet to the city street,
He followed me to the sea,
But not to the neighbouring churchyard
Did he dream of following me.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 110111 1111011011 100101 1110110101 111101 001111011 1111001 111110101 1101101 111011 11111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 406 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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