Analysis of Places
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Nobody says: Ah, that is the place
Where chanced, in the hollow of years ago,
What none of the Three Towns cared to know -
The birth of a little girl of grace -
The sweetest the house saw, first or last;
Yet it was so
On that day long past.
Nobody thinks: There, there she lay
In a room by the Hoe, like the bud of a flower,
And listened, just after the bedtime hour,
To the stammering chimes that used to play
The quaint Old Hundred-and-Thirteenth tune
In Saint Andrew's tower
Night, morn, and noon.
Nobody calls to mind that here
Upon Boterel Hill, where the carters skid,
With cheeks whose airy flush outbid
Fresh fruit in bloom, and free of fear,
She cantered down, as if she must fall
(Though she never did),
To the charm of all.
Nay: one there is to whom these things,
That nobody else's mind calls back,
Have a savour that scenes in being lack,
And a presence more than the actual brings;
To whom to-day is beneaped and stale,
And its urgent clack
But a vapid tale.
Scheme | ABBACBC DEEDFEF XGGXHGH IJJIKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1100101101 111011111 011010111 010011111 1111 11111 111111 0011011011010 0101100110 10111111 011100111 01110 1101 111111 011110101 1111011 11010111 11111111 11101 10111 11111111 1110111 101110101 00101101001 11111101 01101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 953 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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