Analysis of During Wind and Rain
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
THEY sing their dearest songs--
He, she, all of them--yea,
Treble and tenor and bass.
And one to play;
With the candles mooning each face....
Ah, no; the years O!
How the sick leaves reel down in throngs!
They clear the creeping moss--
Elders and juniors--aye,
Making the pathways neat
And the garden gay;
And they build a shady seat....
Ah, no; the years, the years;
See, the white storm-birds wing across!
They are blithely breakfasting all--
Men and maidens--yea,
Under the summer tree,
With a glimpse of the bay,
While pet fowl come to the knee....
Ah, no; the years O!
And the rotten rose is ripped from the wall.
They change to a high new house,
He, she, all of them--aye,
Clocks and carpets and chairs
On the lawn all day,
And brightest things that are theirs....
Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.
Scheme | abxbxCa defbfGd hbibiCh xejbjGx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 111111 1001001 0111 1010111 11011 10111101 110101 100101 10011 00101 0110101 110101 10111101 111011 10101 100101 101101 1111101 11011 0010111101 1110111 111111 101001 10111 0101111 110101 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 900 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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