Analysis of Heredity
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance -- that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die
| Scheme | ABABAX CDCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 11111 010101 11111 0101111 100100 0111011 010101 010101 11111 0010101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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