The West-Of-Wessex Girl
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
A very West-of-Wessex girl,
As blithe as blithe could be,
Was once well-known to me,
And she would laud her native town,
And hope and hope that we
Might sometime study up and down
Its charms in company.
But never I squired my Wessex girl
In jaunts to Hoe or street
When hearts were high in beat,
Nor saw her in the marbled ways
Where market-people meet
That in her bounding early days
Were friendly with her feet.
Yet now my West-of-Wessex girl,
When midnight hammers slow
From Andrew's, blow by blow,
As phantom draws me by the hand
To the place-Plymouth Hoe-
Where side by side in life, as planned,
We never were to go!
Begun in Plymouth, March 1913
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBCBCB ADDEDED AFFGFGF X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 123 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 1 |
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