Analysis of The Bullfinches
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Bother Bulleys, let us sing
From the dawn till evening! -
For we know not that we go not
When the day's pale pinions fold
Unto those who sang of old.
When I flew to Blackmoor Vale,
Whence the green-gowned faeries hail,
Roosting near them I could hear them
Speak of queenly Nature's ways,
Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
All we creatures, nigh and far
(Said they there), the Mother's are:
Yet she never shows endeavour
To protect from warrings wild
Bird or beast she calls her child.
Busy in her handsome house
Known as Space, she falls a-drowse;
Yet, in seeming, works on dreaming,
While beneath her groping hands
Fiends make havoc in her bands.
How her hussif'ry succeeds
She unknows or she unheeds,
All things making for Death's taking!
--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over Blackmoor way.
Come then, brethren, let us sing,
From the dawn till evening! -
For we know not that we go not
When the day's pale pinions fold
Unto those who sang of old.
Scheme | aABCC ddxee ffxgg xeahh xeaii aABCC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 101111 101110 11111111 101111 1011111 111111 101111 1111111 111101 1011111 1110101 1110101 11101010 101111 1111101 1000101 1111101 10101110 1010101 1110001 10101 11111 11101110 101111 101011 1110111 101110 11111111 101111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,039 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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