Analysis of In a Museum
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light,
Which over the earth before man came was winging;
There's a contralto voice I heard last night,
That lodges with me still in its sweet singing.
Such a dream is Time that the coo of this ancient bird
Has perished not, but is blent, or will be blending
Mid visionless wilds of space with the voice that I heard,
In the full-fuged song of the universe unending.
Scheme | ABAB CBCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011010011111 110010111110 10111111 11011101110 1011110111101 110111111110 11111101111 001111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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