Analysis of The Year's Awakening
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
How do you know that the pilgrim track
Along the belting zodiac
Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds
Is traced by now to the Fishes' bounds
And into the Ram, when weeks of cloud
Have wrapt the sky in a clammy shroud,
And never as yet a tinct of spring
Has shown in the Earth's apparelling;
O vespering bird, how do you know,
How do you know?
How do you know, deep underground,
Hid in your bed from sight and sound,
Without a turn in temperature,
With weather life can scarce endure,
That light has won a fraction's strength,
And day put on some moments' length,
Whereof in merest rote will come,
Weeks hence, mild airs that do not numb;
O crocus root, how do you know,
How do you know?
Scheme | aabbccxadD eexxffggdD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111110101 0101010 110101101 111110101 001011111 110100101 010110111 110011 1111111 1111 1111110 10111101 01010100 11011101 1111011 01111101 1010111 11111111 11011111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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