Analysis of Over The Hills
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
Often and often it came back again
To mind, the day I passed the horizon ridge
To a new country, the path I had to find
By half-gaps that were stiles once in the hedge,
The pack of scarlet clouds running across
The harvest evening that seemed endless then
And after, and the inn where all were kind,
All were strangers. I did not know my loss
Till one day twelve months later suddenly
I leaned upon my spade and saw it all,
Though far beyond the sky-line. It became
Almost a habit through the year for me
To lean and see it and think to do the same
Again for two days and a night. Recall
Was vain: no more could the restless brook
Ever turn back and climb the waterfall
To the lake that rests and stirs not in its nook,
As in the hollow of the collar-bone
Under the mountain's head of rush and stone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 11011100101 10110011111 1111011001 0111011001 0101011101 0100011101 1010111111 1111110100 1101110111 1101011101 101010111 11011011101 011110011 111110101 101101010 10111011011 1001010101 1001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 627 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 158 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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