How She Went To Ireland

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



Dora’s gone to Ireland
Through the sleet and snow;
Promptly she has gone there
In a ship, although
Why she’s gone to Ireland
Dora does not know.

That was where, yea, Ireland,
Dora wished to be:
When she felt, in lone times,
Shoots of misery,
Often there, in Ireland,
Dora wished to be.

Hence she’s gone to Ireland,
Since she meant to go,
Through the drift and darkness
Onward labouring, though
That she’s gone to Ireland
Dora does not know.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abxbaB aCxcaC abxbaB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 456
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

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