Analysis of Exeunt Omnes
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Everybody else, then, going,
And I still left where the fair was?…
Much have I seen of neighbour loungers
Making a lusty showing,
Each now past all knowing.
There is an air of blankness
In the street and the littered spaces;
Thoroughfare, steeple, bridge and highway
Wizen themselves to lankness;
Kennels dribble dankness.
Folk all fade. And whither,
As I wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night-fog
Whence they entered hither.
Soon one more goes thither!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110 01111011 1111111 1001010 111110 111111 001001010 1010101 100111 10101 111010 111011011 0101001011 111010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 485 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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