Analysis of An August Midnight
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
A shaded lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a distant floor:
On this scene enter--winged, horned, and spined -
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
While 'mid my page there idly stands
A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . .
Thus meet we five, in this still place,
At this point of time, at this point in space.
- My guests parade my new-penned ink,
Or bang at the lamp-glass, whirl, and sink.
"God's humblest, they!" I muse. Yet why?
They know Earth-secrets that know not I.
Scheme | ABABCC DDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100101 00110110101 111101101 0101001 11111101 01011111 11110111 1111111101 11011111 111011101 110011111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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