Analysis of The Superseded
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
As newer comers crowd the fore,
We drop behind.
- We who have laboured long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
Yet there are of us some who grieve
To go behind;
Staunch, strenuous souls who scarce believe
Their fires declined,
And know none cares, remembers, spares
Who go behind.
'Tis not that we have unforetold
The drop behind;
We feel the new must oust the old
In every kind;
But yet we think, must we, must WE,
Too, drop behind?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 1101 1111101 1111 01111101 1101 11111111 1101 110011101 11001 01110101 1101 111111 0101 11011101 01001 11111111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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