Analysis of In The Moonlight
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
"O lonely workman, standing there
In a dream, why do you stare and stare
At her grave, as no other grave where there?"
"If your great gaunt eyes so importune
Her soul by the shine of this corpse-cold moon,
Maybe you'll raise her phantom soon!"
"Why, fool, it is what I would rather see
Than all the living folk there be;
But alas, there is no such joy for me!"
"Ah - she was one you loved, no doubt,
Through good and evil, through rain and drought,
And when she passed, all your sun went out?"
"Nay: she was the woman I did not love,
Whom all the other were ranked above,
Whom during her life I thought nothing of."
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Poetic Form | Triplet |
Metre | 11010101 001111101 1011110111 1111111 0110111111 10110101 1111111101 11010111 1011111111 11111111 110101101 011111111 1110101111 110100101 1100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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