The Recalcitrants
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Let us off and search, and find a place
Where yours and mine can be natural lives,
Where no one comes who dissects and dives
And proclaims that ours is a curious case,
That its touch of romance can scarcely grace.
You would think it strange at first, but then
Everything has been strange in its time.
When some one said on a day of the prime
He would bow to no brazen god again
He doubtless dazed the mass of men.
None will recognize us as a pair whose claims
Righteous judgment we care not making;
Who have doubted if breath be worth the taking,
And have no respect for the current fames
Whence the savour has flown while abide the names.
We have found us already shunned, disdained,
And for re-acceptance have not once striven;
Whatever offence our course has given
The brunt thereof we have long sustained.
Well, let us away, scorned, unexplained.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXAA BCCBB DEEAD FGGFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 158 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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