Analysis of Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter (April, 1887)
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry
Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome;
Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome
Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy.
And cracking frieze and rotten metope
Express, as though they were an open tome
Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome;
"Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!"
And yet within these ruins' very shade
The singing workmen shape and set and join
Their frail new mansion's stuccoed cove and quoin
With no apparent sense that years abrade,
Though each rent wall their feeble works invade
Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin.
Scheme | ABBA XBBA CDDCCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011100 1110101 111101 1101110100 01010101 0111101101 1111011 111110100 0101110101 0101010101 111110101 110101111 1111110101 11110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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