Analysis of The Discovery

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I wandered to a crude coast
Like a ghost;
Upon the hills I saw fires -
Funeral pyres
Seemingly - and heard breaking
Waves like distant cannonades that set the land shaking.

And so I never once guessed
A Love-nest,
Bowered and candle-lit, lay
In my way,
Till I found a hid hollow,
Where I burst on her my heart could not but follow.


Scheme AABBCC DDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011 101 01011110 10010 1000110 11101110110 0111011 011 101011 011 1110110 111101111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 328
Words 66
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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