Analysis of In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
THE years have gathered grayly
Since I danced upon this leaze
With one who kindled gayly
Love's fitful ecstasies!
But despite the term as teacher,
I remain what I was then
In each essential feature
Of the fantasies of men.
Yet I note the little chisel
Of ever-napping Time,
Defacing ghast and grizzel
The blazon of my prime.
When at night he thinks me sleeping,
I feel him boring sly
Within my bones, and heaping
Quaintest pains for by-and-by.
Still, I'd go the world with Beauty,
I would laugh with her and sing,
I would shun divinest duty
To resume her worshipping.
But she'd scorn my brave endeavor,
She would not balm the breeze
By murmuring, "Thine for ever!"
As she did upon this leaze.
Scheme | ABABCDCD AEAEFAFX GFGFCBCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 1110111 111101 1101 10101110 1011111 0101010 1010011 11101010 110101 010101 01111 11111110 111101 0111010 111101 11101110 1111001 111110 1010100 11111010 111101 11001110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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