Analysis of She, to Him, II
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away,
Some other’s feature, accent, thought like mine,
Will carry you back to what I used to say,
And bring some memory of your love’s decline.
Then you may pause awhile and think, “Poor jade!”
And yield a sigh to me—as gift benign,
Not as the tittle of a debt unpaid
To one who could to you her all resign—
And thus reflecting, you will never see
That your thin thought, in two small words conveyed,
Was no such fleeting phantom-thought to me,
But the Whole Life wherein my part was played;
And you amid its fitful masquerade
A Thought—as I in yours but seem to be.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101 1101001111 11011111111 01110011101 1111010111 0101111101 1101010101 1111110101 0101011101 1111011101 1111010111 1011011111 010111001 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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