Analysis of Without Ceremony
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
It was your way, my dear,
To be gone without a word
When callers, friends, or kin
Had left, and I hastened in
To rejoin you, as I inferred.
And when you'd a mind to career
Off anywhere - say to town -
You were all on a sudden gone
Before I had thought thereon,
Or noticed your trunks were down.
So, now that you disappear
For ever in that swift style,
Your meaning seems to me
Just as it used to be:
'Good-bye is not worth while!'
Scheme | ABCCB ADEED AFGGF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111111 1110101 110111 1101100 10111101 01101101 110111 10110101 0111101 1101101 111101 1100111 110111 111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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