Analysis of She, To Him III
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will!
And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye
That he did not discern and domicile
One his by right ever since that last Good-bye!
I have no care for friends, or kin, or prime
Of manhood who deal gently with me here;
Amid the happy people of my time
Who work their love's fulfilment, I appear
Numb as a vane that cankers on its point,
True to the wind that kissed ere canker came;
Despised by souls of Now, who would disjoint
The mind from memory, and make Life all aim,
My old dexterities of hue quite gone,
And nothing left for Love to look upon.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 01111101001 11110101 11111011111 1111111111 111110111 0101010111 11111101 1101110111 1101111101 0111111101 01110001111 1111111 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 662 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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