Analysis of The Sun On The Bookcase
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Once more the cauldron of the sun
Smears the bookcase with winy red,
And here my page is, and there my bed,
And the apple-tree shadows travel along.
Soon their intangible track will be run,
And dusk grow strong
And they have fled.
Yes: now the boiling ball is gone,
And I have wasted another day….
But wasted-wasted, do I say?
Is it a waste to have imagined one
Beyond the hills there, who, anon,
My great deeds done,
Will be mine alway?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 101111 011110111 0010111001 1101001111 0111 0111 11010111 011100101 11010111 1101110101 0101111 1111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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