Analysis of The Self-Unseeing

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



Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.

She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.

Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 110101 101001 110101 101110 111001 1001010 11111 10110010 111001 1001011 101101 1101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 338
Words 63
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 31, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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