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 |
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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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