Analysis of I Sometimes Think
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
For F. E. H.
I sometimes think as here I sit
Of things I have done,
Which seemed in doing not unfit
To face the sun:
Yet never a soul has paused a whit
On such-not one.
There was that eager strenuous press
To sow good seed;
There was that saving from distress
In the nick of need;
There were those words in the wilderness:
Who cared to heed?
Yet can this be full true, or no?
For one did care,
And, spiriting into my house, to, fro,
Like wind on the stair,
Cares still, heeds all, and will, even though
I may despair.
Scheme | X ABABAB CDCDXD EFEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 10111111 11111 11010101 1101 110011101 1111 111101001 1111 11110101 00111 101100100 1111 11111111 1111 01011111 11101 111101101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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