Analysis of The Selfsame Song
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
A bird sings the selfsame song,
With never a fault in its flow,
That we listened to here those long
Long years ago.
A pleasing marvel is how
A strain of such rapturous rote
Should have gone on thus till now
unchanged in a note!
--But its not the selfsame bird.--
No: perished to dust is he....
As also are those who heard
That song with me.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 011011 11001011 11101111 1101 0101011 01111001 1111111 01001 111011 1101111 1101111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 346 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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