Analysis of On an Invitation to the United States.
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
My ardours for emprize nigh lost
Since Life has bared its bones to me,
I shrink to seek a modern coast
Whose riper times have yet to be;
Where the new regions claim them free
From that long drip of human tears
Which peoples old in tragedy
Have left upon the centuried years.
For, wonning in these ancient lands,
Enchased and lettered as a tomb,
And scored with prints of perished hands,
And chronicled with dates of doom,
Though my own Being bear no bloom
I trace the lives such scenes enshrine,
Give past exemplars present room,
And their experience count as mine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11111111 11110101 1111111 10110111 11111101 11010100 1101011 1101101 1010101 01111101 01001111 11110111 11011101 11010101 010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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