Song of Hope

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



O sweet To-morrow! -
   After to-day
   There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
Hope, for a gleaming
Soon will be streaming,
   Dimmed by no gray -
   No gray!

While the winds wing us
   Sighs from The Gone,
   Nearer to dawn
Minute-beats bring us;
When there will sing us
Larks of a glory
Waiting our story
   Further anon -
   Anon!

Doff the black token,
   Don the red shoon,
   Right and retune
Viol-strings broken;
Null the words spoken
In speeches of rueing,
The night cloud is hueing,
   To-morrow shines soon -
   Shines soon!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBAACCBB DEEDDFFEE GEEGGCCHH
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 559
Words 97
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 9, 9

Thomas Hardy

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