Analysis of To Life
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
O life with the sad seared face,
I weary of seeing thee,
And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace,
And thy too-forced pleasantry!
I know what thou would'st tell
Of Death, Time, Destiny -
I have known it long, and know, too, well
What it all means for me.
But canst thou not array
Thyself in rare disguise,
And feign like truth, for one mad day,
That Earth is Paradise?
I'll tune me to the mood,
And mumm with thee till eve;
And maybe what as interlude
I feign, I shall believe!
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1110111 1101101 0111011001 0111100 1111111 111100 111110111 111111 111101 10101 01111111 11110 111101 011111 0101110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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