Analysis of The Recalcitrants
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Let us off and search, and find a place
Where yours and mine can be natural lives,
Where no one comes who dissects and dives
And proclaims that ours is a curious case,
That its touch of romance can scarcely grace.
You would think it strange at first, but then
Everything has been strange in its time.
When some one said on a day of the prime
He would bow to no brazen god again
He doubtless dazed the mass of men.
None will recognize us as a pair whose claims
Righteous judgment we care not making;
Who have doubted if breath be worth the taking,
And have no respect for the current fames
Whence the savour has flown while abide the names.
We have found us already shunned, disdained,
And for re-acceptance have not once striven;
Whatever offence our course has given
The brunt thereof we have long sustained.
Well, let us away, scorned, unexplained.
Scheme | AXXAA BCCBB DEEAD FGGFF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111010101 1101111001 111110101 001110101001 1111011101 111111111 10111011 1111101101 1111110101 11010111 1110110111 101011110 11101111010 0110110101 1011110101 1111010101 01101011110 101101110 01111101 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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