Analysis of She Charged Me
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
She charged me with having said this and that
To another woman long years before,
In the very parlour where we sat, -
Sat on a night when the endless pour
Of rain on the roof and the road below
Bent the spring of the spirit more and more….
- So charged she me; and the Cupids bow
Of her mouth was hard, and her eyes, and her face,
And her white forefinger lifted slow.
Had she done it gently, or shown a trace
That not too curiously would she view
A folly passed ere her reign had place,
A kiss might have ended it. But I knew
From the fall of each word, and the pause between,
That the curtain would drop upon us two
Ere long, in our play of slave and queen.
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Metre | 1111101101 1010101101 001010111 110110101 1110100101 1011010101 111100101 10111001001 00110101 1111101101 1111000111 010110111 0111101111 10111100101 1010110111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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