Analysis of To A Lady
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Offended by a Book of the Writer's
NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe,
Never to press thy cosy cushions more,
Or wake thy ready Yeas as heretofore,
Or stir thy gentle vows of faith in me:
Knowing thy natural receptivity,
I figure that, as flambeaux banish eve,
My sombre image, warped by insidious heave
Of those less forthright, must lose place in thee.
So be it. I have borne such. Let thy dreams
Of me and mine diminish day by day,
And yield their space to shine of smugger things;
Till I shape to thee but in fitful gleams,
And then in far and feeble visitings,
And then surcease. Truth will be truth alway.
Scheme | A BCCB BDDB EXXEAX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101011010 11111110 1011110101 111101101 1111011101 1011001100 110111101 11101101001 1111111101 1111111111 1101010111 011111111 1111110101 01010101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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