Analysis of In Tenebris
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Wintertime nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.
Flower-petals flee;
But since it once hath been,
No more that severing scene
Can harrow me.
Birds faint in dread:
I shall not lose old strength
In the lone frost's black length:
Strength long since fled!
Leaves freeze to dun;
But friends cannot turn cold
This season as of old
For him with none.
Tempests may scath;
But love cannot make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.
Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One, who past doubtings all,
Waits in unhope.
Scheme | AXXA BXXB CDDC EFFE DGGX HBXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 101 110101 110101 1111 10101 111111 1111001 1101 1101 111111 001111 1111 1111 111011 110111 1111 111 111011 011111 1111 1111 11111 11111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 550 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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