Analysis of The Embankment

Thomas Ernest Hulme 1883 (Endon, Staffordshire) – 1917 (Oostduinkerke, West Flanders)



(The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night.)
   Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,

In the flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
   Now see I
   That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
   Oh, God, make small
   The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
   That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.


Scheme XA XBAXBB
Poetic Form
Metre 00101010100101101 100111011100 00111110110 111 11010111 1111 0111010101 111111100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 336
Words 64
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 6
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Ernest Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father of imagism'. more…

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