Analysis of She, to Him, I
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
When you shall see me lined by tool of Time,
My lauded beauties carried off from me,
My eyes no longer stars as in their prime,
My name forgot of Maiden Fair and Free;
When in your being heart concedes to mind,
And judgment, though you scarce its process know,
Recalls the excellencies I once enshrined,
And you are irked that they have withered so:
Remembering that with me lies not the blame,
That Sportsman Time but rears his brood to kill,
Knowing me in my soul the very same—
One who would die to spare you touch of ill!—
Will you not grant to old affection’s claim
The hand of friendship down Life’s sunless hill?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1101010111 1111011011 1101110101 1011010111 010111111 101101101 0111111101 01001111101 1101111111 1010110101 1111111111 1111110101 011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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