Analysis of She Hears The Storm
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
There was a time in former years-
While my roof-tree was his-
When I should have been distressed by fears
At such a night as this!
I should have murmured anxiously,
'The prickling rain strikes cold;
His road is bare of hedge or tree,
And he is getting old.'
But now the fitful chimney-roar,
The drone of Thorncombe trees,
The Froom in flood upon the moor,
The mud of Mellstock Leaze,
The candle slanting sooty-wick'd,
The thuds upon the thatch,
The eaves drops on the window flicked,
The clanking garden-hatch,
And what they mean to wayfarers,
I scarcely heed or mind;
He has won that storm-tight roof of hers
Which Earth grants all her kind.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XXXA XDCD AEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010101 111111 111110111 110111 11110100 01111 11111111 011101 11010101 01111 01010101 01111 010101010 010101 01110101 010101 011111 110111 111111110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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