Analysis of The Coquette, and After (Triolets)
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
For long the cruel wish I knew
That your free heart should ache for me
While mine should bear no ache for you;
For, long--the cruel wish!--I knew
How men can feel, and craved to view
My triumph--fated not to be
For long! . . . The cruel wish I knew
That your free heart should ache for me!
At last one pays the penalty -
The woman--women always do.
My farce, I found, was tragedy
At last!--One pays the penalty
With interest when one, fancy-free,
Learns love, learns shame . . . Of sinners two
At last ONE pays the penalty -
The woman--women always do!
Scheme | aBaaabaB BAbbbaBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11111111 11111111 11010111 11110111 11010111 11010111 11111111 11110100 0101011 11111100 11110100 11011101 11111101 11110100 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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