Analysis of I Found Her Out There
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I found her out there
On a slope few see,
That falls westwardly
To the sharp-edged air,
Where the ocean breaks
On the purple strand,
And the hurricane shakes
The solid land.
I brought her here,
And have laid her to rest
In a noiseless nest
No sea beats near.
She will never be stirred
In her loamy cell
By the waves long heard
And loved so well.
So she does not sleep
By those haunted heights
The Atlantic smites
And the blind gales sweep,
Whence she often would gaze
At Dundagel's far head,
While the dipping blaze
Dyed her face fire-red;
And would sigh at the tale
Of sunk Lyonnesse,
While a wind-tugged tress
Flapped her cheek like a flail;
Or listen at whiles
With a thought-bound brow
To the murmuring miles
She is far from now.
Yet her shade, maybe,
Will glide underground
Till it catch the sound
Of that western sea
As it swells and sobs
Where she once domiciled,
And joy in its throbs
With the heart of a child.
Scheme | ABCADEDE XFFXGCGC HXBHIJIJ CBXCKLKL BMMBXEBX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (38%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 11011 10111 111 10111 10101 10101 00101 0101 1101 011011 0011 1111 111011 00101 10111 0111 11111 11101 00101 00111 111011 1111 10101 101101 011101 111 10111 101101 11011 10111 101001 11111 10110 1110 11101 11101 11101 1111 01011 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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