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
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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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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