Analysis of In The Days Of Crinoline
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
A plain tilt-bonnet on her head
She took the path across the leaze.
- Her spouse the vicar, gardening, said,
'Too dowdy that, for coquetries,
So I can hoe at ease.'
But when she had passed into the heath,
And gained the wood beyond the flat,
She raised her skirts, and from beneath
Unpinned and drew as from a sheath
An ostrich-feathered hat.
And where the hat had hung she now
Concealed and pinned the dowdy hood,
And set the hat upon her brow,
And thus emerging from the wood
Tripped on in jaunty mood.
The sun was low and crimson-faced
As two came that way from the town,
And plunged into the wood untraced….
When separately therefrom they paced
The sun had quite gone down.
The hat and feather disappeared,
The dowdy hood again was donned,
And in the gloom the fair one neared
Her home and husband dour, who conned
Calmly his blue-eyed blonde.
'To-day,' he said, 'you have shown good sense,
A dress so modest and so meek
Should always deck your goings hence
Alone.' And as a recompense
He kissed her on the cheek.
Scheme | ABABB CDCCD EFEFX GHAGH IJIJJ BKBBK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 01110101 11010101 010101001 110111 111111 111110101 01010101 11010101 1011101 110101 01011111 01010101 01010101 01010101 110101 01110101 11111101 0101011 11000111 011111 0101001 01010111 00010111 010101011 101111 111111111 01110011 1111101 0101010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 998 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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